The recent controversy surrounding bullying at Cedar Creek School has served to illustrate the dark side of peer pressure, and left many parents wondering what they can do to help protect their own ...

Neil Bernstein, a clinical psychologist writes about how to understand peer pressure, sex and talk to teenagers about it. You can read an excerpt from his book, "How to Keep Your Teenagers Out of ...

The teen years are no picnic — for your child or for you as a parent. There are hormones, school pressure and mood swings — and perhaps the largest looming of them all: Peer pressure. Will your ...

As I indicated in my Letter to the Editor earlier this week, I am learning the difference between positive and negative peer pressure. I want to be the type of person who does things because of my ...

To most adults, “peer pressure” conjures images of the bad kids corrupting the good ones — leading them to dangerous or illegal activities. Parents worry that their children will fall into the wrong ...

t Peer pressure affects everyone, not just your teen. t For example, do you keep your yard in perfect condition because everyone else in the neighborhood does? Or do you buy lunch only because ...

Economist Robert Frank studies peer pressure and how its power can be leveraged for good. In his new book, “Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work,” Frank explains the idea of “behavioral ...

Recent examples of fallen ministries show us that conformity can be dangerous. In the case of every single one of these churches and ministries, we see that though these seemingly “too big to fail” ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - Broward County Public Schools held a rally at Dillard High School to help students stand up to negative peer pressure. The district brought over 2,000 students to the ...

“It’s the situation, not the person,” goes a mantra of social psychology. That is the idea that people are influenced as much by their surroundings as by their deliberative judgements and free will.

Peer pressure is a proven social motivator. Researchers probed this decidedly human attribute and found that not only is virtual pressure from a computer-simulated peer just as motivating as the real ...