Department of Psychology
1285 Franz Hall
Phone: (310) 825-8293
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Website: http://www.psych.ucla.edu/Faculty/faculty.php?id=60&area=4

Research:
I study young adolescents relationship's with their peers and how these relationships are related to the development and adaptive functioning of youth. The main topics that I have investigated over the years include the study of social motivational analyses of perceived deviance and peer rejection, development of self-presentation strategies, perceived peer group norms and public behavior of young teens, and bullying or peer harassment in school.

Selected Publications:

Juvonen, J. (2006). Sense of belonging, social relationships, and school functioning. P. A. Alexander and P. H. Winne (Eds.), Handbook of Educational Psychology, 2nd edition (pp. 255-674). Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ.

Juvonen, J., Nishina, A., & Graham, S. (2006). Ethnic diversity and perceptions of safety in urban middle schools, Psychological Science, 17, 393-400.

Juvonen. J. & Gross, E. F. (2005). The rejected and the bullied: Lessons about social misfits from developmental psychology. In K. D. Williams, J.P. Forgas, & W. von Hippel (Eds.). The social outcast: Ostracism, social exclusion, rejection, and bullying, (pp. 155-170). New York: Psychology Press.

Selected Courses:
Psychology 240B (Social and Emotional Development)