• "Adolescent Secretive Behavior: African American and Hmong Adolescents' Strategies and Justifications for Managing Parents' Knowledge About Peers"

Bakken JP, Brown BB, Journal of Research on Adolescence 20 (2): 359-388 Jun 2010.  Four categories of information management strategies and four primary types of adolescent justifications were identified. Adolescents were pragmatic in their decisions about secretive behaviors but also considered the impact of their behaviors on their relationships with parents. Adolescent strategies were consistent across ethnic groups, whereas justifications for secretive behaviors were embedded within cultural and family experiences.

• "Comments on adolescent peer crowd affiliation: a response to Cross and Fletcher"

Pokhrel P, Brown BB, Moran MB, et al., Journal of Youth and Adolescence 39 (2): 213-216 Feb 2010. Thinking.

• "Adolescent peer group identification and characteristics: A review of the literature"

Sussman S, Pokhrel P, Ashmore RD, et al., Addictive Behaviors 32 (8): 1602-1627 Aug 2007. This study provides an exhaustive review of 44 peer-reviewed quantitative or qualitative data-based peer-reviewed studies completed on adolescent peer group identification.

• "Freaks, geeks, and cool kids: American teenagers, schools, and the culture of consumption"