Peer pressure can affect your child's behavior in positive and negative ways. Here's what you should know about helping your ...

Peer pressure is a common social phenomenon where individuals feel compelled to conform to the behaviors, attitudes, or expectations of their peer group. While some peer influence can promote positive ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D. An adolescent peer group is the collection of friends a young person regularly hangs out with. While it’s true that the pressure of peer group membership (e.g., to agree, ...

As soon as we begin developing friendships, we start to view our peers as a source of information as well as for approval. In early childhood, our peer group includes a broad group of people from ...

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, ...

The other night, my friend's teenage daughter asked her if she could download a new app because "everyone has it." She ...

LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) - Anorexia is a socially transmitted disorder and appears to be more prevalent in countries such as France where women are thinner than average, according to new research ...