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Peer relationships provide a unique context in which children learn a range of critical social emotional skills, such as empathy, cooperation, and problem-solving strategies.
Peer relationships can also contribute negatively to social emotional development through bullying, exclusion, and deviant peer processes.
Peer help socialization individual by reinforcing or punishing behaviors or inter personal interactions peers are essential throughout one's social development, but research suggests this is particulars true during adolescence .
Peer groups allow an individual access to different perspectives, behavioral repertoires, attitudes, and values. Peers, particularly group members, become important social referents for teaching other members customs, social norms, and different ideologies .