The extent to which children differ from their peers in terms of these attributes may also play a role in peer interaction. It is commonly observed that children choose to interact with certain peers more frequently who share some common attributes than to interact with less-similar peers within a preschool classroom. This homophily phenomenon has received considerable attention from early childhood researchers in the past decades. Researchers speculate that the children with whom a child interacts most often can have significant effects on the child’s development