Why are adolescents so sensitive to their peers' behavior? And is this sensitivity necessarily negative, as the term peer pressure often implies? In his Ph.D. dissertation, UvA behavioral scientist ...

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 ...

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 ...

A randomized trial conducted by health economists found that a bit of peer influence can nudge us to select healthier groceries. Amid the rise of chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, ...

We know AI agents go rogue. Now it emerges that one agent changing its "mind" can tip the rest, writes Check Point AI ...

To what Extent does Peer Group Smoking Predict Adolescent Smoking? The tendency for adolescent peer group members to share common characteristics such as smoking, termed alternatively as peer group ...

A study published in the International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies has looked at the dynamics of student peers helping each other with their educational needs. Peer mentoring and ...

As teenagers navigate the path from childhood to adulthood, the question of who shapes their choices more, parents or friends, continues to spark debate among educators, psychologists, and families.

The term "peer pressure" is often linked to the experiences of children or teenagers in extreme situations. One University of Texas at Dallas researcher wondered if adults continue to succumb to ...

Newswise — How much alcohol a person drinks is strongly linked to how much their peers drink—and not just among teens and young adults. A new study of mature adults, published in Alcohol: Clinical and ...

There is a town in western Japan named Nagi that’s famous for making babies. Its fertility rate in 2021 was 2.68 lifetime births per woman, compared with 1.3 for Japan as a whole, according to an ...