Peer pressure isn't what it used to be — a new study has found more teens feel pressured to be online than they do to smoke, ...

Teens spend a lot of time on the internet. New research shows that peer pressure has followed them there, and in some cases, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BURLINGTON — Parents have been pressuring me to give them some tips to help their children deal with peer pressure. Let me see if ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bane of many parents’ existence, peer pressure, is a topic I am often asked to address. “He just got in with the wrong crowd.” “She is just under the influence of that dirt-bag boyfriend.” Or, ...

In A Nutshell A yearlong study found that young adults bet more during weeks when they believed their friends approved of ...

Voters have received brochure after brochure from campaigns and organizations urging them to vote for a candidate, issue or to vote in general. Some brochures frame their opponents as the most evil ...

Jin Yang, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Memphis, recently conducted an online survey of professors who record their lectures and offer the recordings online to students.