OBJECTIVE Peer socialization may be an important contributor to the rising prevalence of diet and muscle gain behaviors (i.e., body change behaviors) in adolescence. The present study longitudinally examined body change behaviors in preadolescents' friendship groups as predictors of preadolescents' own body change behaviors. It was predicted that peer socialization effects would vary according ...

Friendship pervades the human social landscape. These bonds are so important that disrupting them leads to health problems, and difficulties forming or maintaining friendships attend neuropsychiatric disorders like autism and depression. Other animals also have friends, suggesting that friendship is not solely a human invention but is instead an evolved trait. A neuroethological approach applie...

Certain relationships generate associative duties that exhibit robustness across change. It seems insufficient for friendship, for example, if I am only disposed to fulfil duties of friendship towards you as things stand here and now. However, robustness is not required across all variations. Were you to become monstrously cruel towards me, we might expect that my duties of friendship towards y...

Abstract The aim of this paper is to shed light on the complex relations between friendship and blame. In first part, I show that be friends have certain evaluative, emotional behavioral dispositions toward each other, distinguish two kinds norms friendship, namely friendship-based obligations friendship-constituting rules. Friendship-based tag actions as obligatory, permissible or wrong, where...

The ancient philosophers aimed to turn us away from thinking about particularizing affection justifiable human relations. aim of their protreptic discourses was get readers, who were citizens, sons, and fathers, think lives by putting these relations into question. I show how this conversion works explore its political consequences reading the accounts friendship in Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, th...