"Organizations don't underperform for lack of strong leadership. They struggle when the power of peers is left ...

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 ...

Our neighbors, friends, and loved ones are the first people we turn to for help, advice, even a cup of sugar sometimes. A new report from Generation180 finds they also play a key role in whether we ...

Widely covered by the media, the PISA "shock" (2012) crowned France champion of educational inequality. A. Riegert's dissertation revisits sensitive topics such as segregation, inequality, and peer ...

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 ...

When we think about peer pressure, we immediately think it is a force ruining our society. Not only can it hurt the victim, but it can also impact the people around us. Peer pressure strongly ...

Peer-pressure can make people do bad things. Trying recreational drugs for the first time is often linked to being around peers that use drugs. First time recreational drug users are often led down a ...

The teenage years are a complex interplay of parental guidance and peer influence. Parents establish the bedrock of values and support, but as adolescents seek autonomy, their friends play an ...

Physician peer influence plays a crucial role in the adoption of opportunistic salpingectomy for ovarian cancer risk reduction. OS uptake increased after 2015 recommendations, with significant ...