13 Facts About Peer pressure

Peer pressure is the direct or indirect influence on peers, i e, members of social groups with similar interests, experiences, or social statuses.

Peer pressure can affect individuals of all ethnicities, genders and ages.

Peer pressure can be experienced through both face-to-face interaction and through digital interaction.

Peer pressure is commonly associated with episodes of adolescent risk taking because these activities commonly occur in the company of peers.

Peer pressure can have positive effects when youth are pressured by their peers toward positive behavior, such as volunteering for charity, excelling in academics, or participating in a service project.

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Peer pressure was greatest among more popular children because they were the children most attuned to the judgments of their peers, making them more susceptible to group pressures.

Peer pressure is widely recognized as a major contributor to the initiation of drug use, particularly in adolescence.

Caldwell and colleagues extended this work by finding that peer pressure was a factor leading to heightened risk in the context of social gatherings with little parental monitoring, and if the individual reported themselves as vulnerable to peer pressure.

Peer pressure argues that the Germans were always anti-Semitic, engaging in a form of "eliminationism".

Peer pressure believes that in order for the policemen in Battalion 101 to kill, they must all be fully committed to the action—no half-heartedness.

Peer pressure can be especially effective in getting people to vote.

Similar large-scale field experiment conducted by Todd Rogers, Donald P Green, Carolina Ferrerosa Young, and John Ternovski studied the impact of a social pressure mailing in the context of a high-salience election, the 2012 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.

Social Peer pressure mailers included the line, “We're sending this mailing to you and your neighbors to publicize who does and does not vote.