From their earliest years all the way through high school, children and teenagers develop a variety of friends as they grow. Laura Elenbaas, assistant professor in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family Science, is interested in the way children and teenagers approach inclusion and exclusion and the implicit and explicit factors that play into who they choose to associate themselves with.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":43699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[1986,263,1161,1715,240,1985,743],"class_list":["post-43698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development-and-family-studies","category-research","tag-clifford-b-kinley-trust","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-human-development-and-family-science","tag-laura-elenbaas","tag-purdue-university","tag-social-development-lab","tag-social-psychology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n