C Mcmillan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Mcmillan |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmillan |
| SIGNATURE | MCMILLAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4108-8112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From peers to partners: The peer‐context origins of adolescent heterosexual romance
Romantic partnerships are highly influential for adolescent development, but many questions remain as to how and with whom such relationships emerge. By adopting a dynamic social network perspective, this study furthers our understanding of the peer‐related precursors to heterosexual adolescent romance. Multivariate statistical network models are applied to unique longitudinal data on 1919 Dutch adolescents' ( M age = 14.9, SD age = 1.6; 52% girl…
Exploring the Network Structure of Help‐Seeking Resources Among Latinx Victims of Hate‐ and Bias‐Motivated Violence
Rates of hate crime and bias victimisation against Latinx individuals are increasing in the United States. It is imperative to understand how Latinx individuals seek help following such incidents. Using data from the Understanding and Measuring Bias Victimization against Latinos study, this paper examines the network structure of help‐seeking resources among Latinx victims of hate crime and bias victimisation. We constructed a network of formal a…
Network threats to causal inference: Variations in network position by participation in randomized controlled trials
Researchers and practitioners rely on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to make causal inferences. However, most people who participate in RCTs are part of multiple, overlapping social networks that shape their behaviors and attitudes. As a result, variations in trial participants’ and non-participants’ network positions may impede the generalizability of a RCT’s conclusions. The current project evaluates the extent and impact of these variatio…
Strong ties, strong homophily? Variation in homophily on sociodemographic characteristics by relationship strength
Social networks are segregated by sociodemographic characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, religion, and socioeconomic status. A key reason for this segregation is homophily, or people's preferences to associate with similar others. Homophily is documented for relationships of different strengths, ranging from marriage and close friendship to weaker acquaintanceships. But does sociodemographic homophily vary by relationship strength? While mos…
Friends forever? Correlates of high school friendship (in)stability from adolescence to young adulthood
The Impact of School Transitions on Adolescent Alcohol and Tobacco Use: Variations by Network Position and Friendship Stability
An Evolution of Hashtags: A Comparative Analysis of Hashtag Usage Following the Deaths of Michael Brown and George Floyd
Recent instances of racial injustice and the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement have spurred conversations about police reform across the United States. Exposure to police aggression through the second-hand accounts of family members, friends, and the media is known to shape individuals' perceptions of law enforcement. However, it remains unclear whether social media platforms can also facilitate vicarious exposure to racialized police vio…
Connecting the dots: Using social network analysis to disentangle the factors driving international migration
Migration scholars and policymakers continue to question why international migration corridors develop. In the current project, I argue that there is value in applying a social network approach to disentangle the processes that drive international migration. Using data on migration between 173 countries from 2010 to 2015, I construct a migration network where nodes are countries and edges are flows weighted by the number of people making an inter…
Changing contexts: A quasi‐experiment examining adolescent delinquency and the transition to high school
In a quasi‐experiment, we examine whether changing schools during the transition from 8th to 9th grade influences adolescent delinquency, using a sample of more than 14,000 students in 26 public school districts (PROSPER study). The dataset follows students for eight waves from 6th through 12th grade and facilitates a unique, direct comparison of students who change schools with those who remain in the same school during this period. Results show…
Adolescent friendship, cross-sexuality ties, and attitudes toward sexual minorities: A social network approach to intergroup contact
A hostile reputation: A social network approach to interstate hostility
Strong and weak tie homophily in adolescent friendship networks: An analysis of same-race and same-gender ties
While we know that adolescents tend to befriend peers who share their race and gender, it is unclear whether patterns of homophily vary according to the strength, intimacy, or connectedness of these relationships. By applying valued exponential random graph models to a sample of 153 adolescent friendship networks, I test whether tendencies towards same-race and same-gender friendships differ for strong versus weak relational ties. In nondiverse, …
Keeping to the code: How local norms of friendship and dating inform macro-structures of adolescents' romantic networks
Even though romantic partnerships are often understood as pairwise relationships, there is value in conceptualizing the dating patterns of adolescents as network phenomena, particularly as related to the spread of sexually transmitted infections. The current study adopts this perspective to evaluate how a local norm guiding the coexistence of dating and friendship informs macro-level romantic network structures. Using twelve months of romantic re…
Worth the weight: Conceptualizing and measuring strong versus weak tie homophily
Comparing targeting strategies for network-based adolescent drinking interventions: A simulation approach
The Nearness between Us, and the Space within Ourselves
Beyond Dyads and Triads: A Comparison of Tetrads in Twenty Social Networks
Social psychologists focus on the microlevel features that define interaction, often attending to dyads and triads. We argue that there also is utility in studying how configurations of four actors, or tetrads, pattern our social world. The current project considers the prevalence of directed tetrads across twenty social networks representing five relationship types (friendship, legislative co-sponsorship, Twitter, advice seeking, and email). By …
With Friends Like These: Aggression from Amity and Equivalence
Some teenagers are willing to bully, harass, and torment their schoolmates in order to achieve popularity and other goals. But whom do they bully? Here, we extend the logic of instrumental aggression to answer this question. To the extent that friendships are the currency of social status, we should expect social aspirants to target their own friends, their friends’ friends, and other structurally equivalent schoolmates. This tendency, we argue, …
Tied Together: Adolescent Friendship Networks, Immigrant Status, and Health Outcomes
This study examines the social integration of adolescent immigrants by directly analyzing the composition of their friendship networks. Using statistical network analysis, I first consider whether adolescents are more likely to befriend peers who share their immigrant generation status in a large, diverse sample of 7th through 12th graders from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (n = 67,586). Next, I test whether having…
Peer influence, friend selection, and gender: How network processes shape adolescent smoking, drinking, and delinquency
Falling Behind: Lingering Costs of the High School Transition for Youth Friendships and Grades
This study investigates the influence of structural transitions to high school on adolescents' friendship networks and academic grades from 6th through 12th grade, in a direct comparison of students who do and do not transition. We utilize data from 14,462 youth in 51 networks from 26 districts (Promoting School-Community Partnerships to Enhance Resilience). Results underscore the challenging nature of compulsory school changes. Students that str…
Briefly Noted
With Friends Like These: Aggression from Amity and Equivalence
Some teenagers are willing to bully, harass, and torment their schoolmates in order to achieve popularity and other goals. But whom do they bully? Here, we extend the logic of instrumental aggression to answer this question. To the extent that friendships are the currency of social status, we should expect social aspirants to target their own friends, their friends’ friends, and other structurally equivalent schoolmates. This tendency, we argue, …
Falling Behind: Lingering Costs of the High School Transition for Youth Friendships and Grades
This study investigates the influence of structural transitions to high school on adolescents' friendship networks and academic grades from 6th through 12th grade, in a direct comparison of students who do and do not transition. We utilize data from 14,462 youth in 51 networks from 26 districts (Promoting School-Community Partnerships to Enhance Resilience). Results underscore the challenging nature of compulsory school changes. Students that str…
Tied Together: Adolescent Friendship Networks, Immigrant Status, and Health Outcomes
This study examines the social integration of adolescent immigrants by directly analyzing the composition of their friendship networks. Using statistical network analysis, I first consider whether adolescents are more likely to befriend peers who share their immigrant generation status in a large, diverse sample of 7th through 12th graders from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (n = 67,586). Next, I test whether having…
Worth the weight: Conceptualizing and measuring strong versus weak tie homophily
Strong and weak tie homophily in adolescent friendship networks: An analysis of same-race and same-gender ties
While we know that adolescents tend to befriend peers who share their race and gender, it is unclear whether patterns of homophily vary according to the strength, intimacy, or connectedness of these relationships. By applying valued exponential random graph models to a sample of 153 adolescent friendship networks, I test whether tendencies towards same-race and same-gender friendships differ for strong versus weak relational ties. In nondiverse, …
Keeping to the code: How local norms of friendship and dating inform macro-structures of adolescents' romantic networks
Even though romantic partnerships are often understood as pairwise relationships, there is value in conceptualizing the dating patterns of adolescents as network phenomena, particularly as related to the spread of sexually transmitted infections. The current study adopts this perspective to evaluate how a local norm guiding the coexistence of dating and friendship informs macro-level romantic network structures. Using twelve months of romantic re…
Comparing targeting strategies for network-based adolescent drinking interventions: A simulation approach
Beyond Dyads and Triads: A Comparison of Tetrads in Twenty Social Networks
Social psychologists focus on the microlevel features that define interaction, often attending to dyads and triads. We argue that there also is utility in studying how configurations of four actors, or tetrads, pattern our social world. The current project considers the prevalence of directed tetrads across twenty social networks representing five relationship types (friendship, legislative co-sponsorship, Twitter, advice seeking, and email). By …
An Evolution of Hashtags: A Comparative Analysis of Hashtag Usage Following the Deaths of Michael Brown and George Floyd
Recent instances of racial injustice and the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement have spurred conversations about police reform across the United States. Exposure to police aggression through the second-hand accounts of family members, friends, and the media is known to shape individuals' perceptions of law enforcement. However, it remains unclear whether social media platforms can also facilitate vicarious exposure to racialized police vio…
Connecting the dots: Using social network analysis to disentangle the factors driving international migration
Migration scholars and policymakers continue to question why international migration corridors develop. In the current project, I argue that there is value in applying a social network approach to disentangle the processes that drive international migration. Using data on migration between 173 countries from 2010 to 2015, I construct a migration network where nodes are countries and edges are flows weighted by the number of people making an inter…
Changing contexts: A quasi‐experiment examining adolescent delinquency and the transition to high school
In a quasi‐experiment, we examine whether changing schools during the transition from 8th to 9th grade influences adolescent delinquency, using a sample of more than 14,000 students in 26 public school districts (PROSPER study). The dataset follows students for eight waves from 6th through 12th grade and facilitates a unique, direct comparison of students who change schools with those who remain in the same school during this period. Results show…
Adolescent friendship, cross-sexuality ties, and attitudes toward sexual minorities: A social network approach to intergroup contact
Briefly Noted
Peer influence, friend selection, and gender: How network processes shape adolescent smoking, drinking, and delinquency
Falling Behind: Lingering Costs of the High School Transition for Youth Friendships and Grades
This study investigates the influence of structural transitions to high school on adolescents' friendship networks and academic grades from 6th through 12th grade, in a direct comparison of students who do and do not transition. We utilize data from 14,462 youth in 51 networks from 26 districts (Promoting School-Community Partnerships to Enhance Resilience). Results underscore the challenging nature of compulsory school changes. Students that str…
Tied Together: Adolescent Friendship Networks, Immigrant Status, and Health Outcomes
This study examines the social integration of adolescent immigrants by directly analyzing the composition of their friendship networks. Using statistical network analysis, I first consider whether adolescents are more likely to befriend peers who share their immigrant generation status in a large, diverse sample of 7th through 12th graders from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (n = 67,586). Next, I test whether having…
The Nearness between Us, and the Space within Ourselves
Beyond Dyads and Triads: A Comparison of Tetrads in Twenty Social Networks
Social psychologists focus on the microlevel features that define interaction, often attending to dyads and triads. We argue that there also is utility in studying how configurations of four actors, or tetrads, pattern our social world. The current project considers the prevalence of directed tetrads across twenty social networks representing five relationship types (friendship, legislative co-sponsorship, Twitter, advice seeking, and email). By …
With Friends Like These: Aggression from Amity and Equivalence
Some teenagers are willing to bully, harass, and torment their schoolmates in order to achieve popularity and other goals. But whom do they bully? Here, we extend the logic of instrumental aggression to answer this question. To the extent that friendships are the currency of social status, we should expect social aspirants to target their own friends, their friends’ friends, and other structurally equivalent schoolmates. This tendency, we argue, …
Comparing targeting strategies for network-based adolescent drinking interventions: A simulation approach
A hostile reputation: A social network approach to interstate hostility
Strong and weak tie homophily in adolescent friendship networks: An analysis of same-race and same-gender ties
While we know that adolescents tend to befriend peers who share their race and gender, it is unclear whether patterns of homophily vary according to the strength, intimacy, or connectedness of these relationships. By applying valued exponential random graph models to a sample of 153 adolescent friendship networks, I test whether tendencies towards same-race and same-gender friendships differ for strong versus weak relational ties. In nondiverse, …
Keeping to the code: How local norms of friendship and dating inform macro-structures of adolescents' romantic networks
Even though romantic partnerships are often understood as pairwise relationships, there is value in conceptualizing the dating patterns of adolescents as network phenomena, particularly as related to the spread of sexually transmitted infections. The current study adopts this perspective to evaluate how a local norm guiding the coexistence of dating and friendship informs macro-level romantic network structures. Using twelve months of romantic re…
Worth the weight: Conceptualizing and measuring strong versus weak tie homophily
Changing contexts: A quasi‐experiment examining adolescent delinquency and the transition to high school
In a quasi‐experiment, we examine whether changing schools during the transition from 8th to 9th grade influences adolescent delinquency, using a sample of more than 14,000 students in 26 public school districts (PROSPER study). The dataset follows students for eight waves from 6th through 12th grade and facilitates a unique, direct comparison of students who change schools with those who remain in the same school during this period. Results show…
Adolescent friendship, cross-sexuality ties, and attitudes toward sexual minorities: A social network approach to intergroup contact
Connecting the dots: Using social network analysis to disentangle the factors driving international migration
Migration scholars and policymakers continue to question why international migration corridors develop. In the current project, I argue that there is value in applying a social network approach to disentangle the processes that drive international migration. Using data on migration between 173 countries from 2010 to 2015, I construct a migration network where nodes are countries and edges are flows weighted by the number of people making an inter…
Strong ties, strong homophily? Variation in homophily on sociodemographic characteristics by relationship strength
Social networks are segregated by sociodemographic characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, religion, and socioeconomic status. A key reason for this segregation is homophily, or people's preferences to associate with similar others. Homophily is documented for relationships of different strengths, ranging from marriage and close friendship to weaker acquaintanceships. But does sociodemographic homophily vary by relationship strength? While mos…
Friends forever? Correlates of high school friendship (in)stability from adolescence to young adulthood
The Impact of School Transitions on Adolescent Alcohol and Tobacco Use: Variations by Network Position and Friendship Stability
An Evolution of Hashtags: A Comparative Analysis of Hashtag Usage Following the Deaths of Michael Brown and George Floyd
Recent instances of racial injustice and the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement have spurred conversations about police reform across the United States. Exposure to police aggression through the second-hand accounts of family members, friends, and the media is known to shape individuals' perceptions of law enforcement. However, it remains unclear whether social media platforms can also facilitate vicarious exposure to racialized police vio…
From peers to partners: The peer‐context origins of adolescent heterosexual romance
Romantic partnerships are highly influential for adolescent development, but many questions remain as to how and with whom such relationships emerge. By adopting a dynamic social network perspective, this study furthers our understanding of the peer‐related precursors to heterosexual adolescent romance. Multivariate statistical network models are applied to unique longitudinal data on 1919 Dutch adolescents' ( M age = 14.9, SD age = 1.6; 52% girl…
Exploring the Network Structure of Help‐Seeking Resources Among Latinx Victims of Hate‐ and Bias‐Motivated Violence
Rates of hate crime and bias victimisation against Latinx individuals are increasing in the United States. It is imperative to understand how Latinx individuals seek help following such incidents. Using data from the Understanding and Measuring Bias Victimization against Latinos study, this paper examines the network structure of help‐seeking resources among Latinx victims of hate crime and bias victimisation. We constructed a network of formal a…
Network threats to causal inference: Variations in network position by participation in randomized controlled trials
Researchers and practitioners rely on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to make causal inferences. However, most people who participate in RCTs are part of multiple, overlapping social networks that shape their behaviors and attitudes. As a result, variations in trial participants’ and non-participants’ network positions may impede the generalizability of a RCT’s conclusions. The current project evaluates the extent and impact of these variatio…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Friendship (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Homophily (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)