Jennifer Watling Neal

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Michigan State University

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Jennifer Watling Neal is a Professor at Michigan State University in the United States. Her research areas include social networks, childfree demographics, and the interplay of personality and political identification, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. She has contributed to various studies on children's social play and friendship networks, as well as trends in childfree adults across different cultures.

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Zachary P. Neal

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Michigan State University

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Understanding the developmental transition between parallel and social play during preschool: A multiplex social network analysis.

Personality, political party identification, and partisan news consumption: A replication and extension in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Estimating the percentage of men who are childfree using the National Survey of Family Growth: A comment on Bozick (2023)

Trends in the Prevalence of Childfree Women in the Philippines, 1993–2022

The “Mammograms Available Due to Resources and Education” (MADRE) Study: Rationale and Design

How many friends do youth nominate? A meta-analysis of gender, age, and geographic differences in average outdegree centrality

Methodological moderators of average outdegree centrality: A meta-analysis of child and adolescent friendship networks

What predicts children’s perceptions of intergroup connections within the classroom?: A social networks-based approach

Illustrating the importance of edge constraints in backbones of bipartite projections

Sample, time, and wording effects on estimating the prevalence of childfree adults: Insights from Japan

Prevalence and characteristics of childfree adults in Michigan (USA)

Network selection and influence effects on children’s and adolescents’ internalizing behaviors and peer victimization: A systematic review

False Positives Using Social Cognitive Mapping to Identify Children’s Peer Groups

Defining brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a systematic review

Are Principals’ Social Networks Associated with Interventions’ Social Validity?

A systematic review of social network methods in high impact developmental psychology journals

Call Me Maybe: Using Incentives and Follow-Ups to Increase Principals’ Survey Response Rates

What is research? Educators’ conceptions and alignment with United States federal policies

Community psychology and urban studies: Common connections and missed opportunities

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Zachary P. Neal

Brian Brutzman

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