In today’s world, peer pressure and the influence of social media have become increasingly difficult for children — particularly young girls — to navigate. As a parent, educator or mentor you’ve ...

BURLINGTON — Parents have been pressuring me to give them some tips to help their children deal with peer pressure. Let me see if I can decompress some of their concerns and provide some information ...

Peer pressure insidiously shapes the lives of young people but it is not always the dramatic, negative influence that we imagine from cautionary tales. Sometimes, peer pressure is simply passing on a ...

GAINES TOWNSHIP, Mich. (ABC 4) — Peer pressure can have negative effects on kids and adults, but open dialogue in families can help mitigate the stress and anxiety that might come with it. “One of the ...

The term "peer pressure" is often linked to the experiences of children or teenagers in extreme situations. One University of Texas at Dallas researcher wondered if adults continue to succumb to ...

Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner states in his book Changing Minds that by about age 10 a child’s peers rather than the parents assume primary importance in the child’s decisions about what to do, ...

Peer pressure. We’ve all felt it at some point, whether it was trying something just to look “cool,” laughing at a joke we didn’t find funny so we would fit in, or pretending to like a movie everyone ...

We’ve all heard the saying “If you show me who your friends are, I can tell you who you are.” When we think of peer pressure, we often think of negative peer pressure, such as convincing a friend to ...

Knowledge workers in the contemporary workplace are no strangers to stress and pressure. Leading experts acknowledge it, organizational leaders accept it, and even those same nerve-wracked, troubled, ...