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Using the Resistance to Peer Influence Scale, Sumter and colleagues found that resistance to peer pressure grew as age increased in a large study of 10- to 18-year-olds. [34] This study also found that girls were generally more resistant to peer influence than boys, particularly at mid-adolescence (i.e. ages 13–15).
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Numerous large-scale in-person and online experiments have documented this phenomenon in the intervening years. Beginning in the early 2000's, Christakis and Fowler explored the impact of social connections on behavior, describing how social influence and social contagion do not end with the people to whom a person is directly connected.
By Jill Krasny A fascinating new working paper by Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz explores the idea of whether peer pressure is effective at motivating people to ramp up their savings.
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Peer pressure refers to a process of social influence on an individual.. Peer pressure may also refer to: . Peer Pressure, American TV production "Peer Pressure", song by L Devine
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do is a 1998 book by the psychologist Judith Rich Harris. Originally published 1998 by the Free Press, which published a revised edition in 2009. [1] The book was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
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