Which is more important to you: how you live your life or how others perceive you? The issue is the difference between ...

The effect of peer influence “raises some interesting and potentially troubling questions about the nature of expertise and decision-making.” But peer influence doesn’t stop at childhood. It extends ...

During adolescence, young people become especially sensitive to peer influence—more so than at any other time in life. So how does this affect their mental health? A new study from Finland, released ...

While 'peer pressure' is often linked to experiences of children or teenagers, researchers say young adults continue to succumb to similar pressures of social conformity in everyday situations. The ...

When I was a child, one of the things that upset me the most was watching friends be mean to other kids—whether it was a classmate they didn’t like or someone who was just going about their day being ...

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, ...