A recent study conducted by Jennifer Watling Neal, an assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State University, found that children who were more accurate in their assessment of their number of friends or who underestimated their quantity of friends compared to peer report were more aggressive. When kids say they have more friends than their peers say they have, those children are actually less aggressive.

 

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