Peer Conflict Project

(PCP)   

    The purpose of the Peer Conflict Project is to examine ways in which college students handle social conflict involving other peer members. The first part of the study investigates their history of aggressive, prosocial and impulsive behaviors. Next, we examine their normative beliefs about aggressive and prosocial responses to social conflict. Finally, college students are asked to interpret the nature of a peer’s behavior (i.e., hostile or benign) in a series of hypothetical-situation vignettes.

     The project is being conducted in the fall 2005 and will include 200 participants (100 male & 100 female). Participants are asked to fill out questionnaires via pen and paper.