News tagged with peer pressure
Teens who express own views with mom resist peer pressures best
Teens who more openly express their own viewpoints in discussions with their moms, even if their viewpoints disagree, are more likely than others to resist peer pressure to use drugs or drink.
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Dec 22, 2011 |
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New research finds extreme antisocial personality predicts gang membership
Research into the 2011 London riots found they were mostly committed by antisocial persons, less than 20% of whom were explicitly gang members. This is because gang membership is primarily for the most antisocial of such ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Peer pressure in preschool children
Adults and adolescents often adjust their behaviour and opinions to peer groups, even when they themselves know better. Researchers from the Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Peer pressure? It's hardwired into our brains
The rewards outweigh the risks – when you're in a group, anyway.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Teen brain data may predict pop song success, study finds
An Emory University study suggests that the brain activity of teens, recorded while they are listening to new songs, may help predict the popularity of the songs.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Children of women who smoked during pregnancy at increased risk of becoming smokers: study
New research has revealed that prenatal exposure to nicotine increases the vulnerability to nicotine self-administration in adolescent mice. The results support the hypothesis that adolescents with prenatal nicotine exposure ...
Mar 21, 2011 |
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In adolescence, the power to resist blooms in the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just when children are faced with intensifying peer pressure to misbehave, regions of the brain are actually blossoming in a way that heighten the ability to resist risky behavior, report ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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63 percent under 30 admit driving while on phone
(AP) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation and Consumer Reports magazine have released a poll that illustrates how widespread distracted driving is among young people and a plan to help fight it.
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Parents important for keeping adolescents off alcohol
Parents who are both present and engaged are the very best way of preventing teenagers from consuming large quantities of alcohol. Adolescents who smoke, stay out with their friends and have access to alcohol - from their ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Complexity of teen drinking cultures decoded
Many factors lead teens to abuse alcohol, but culture plays the biggest role. That is the finding of researchers at George Mason University who recently completed a study of adolescent drinking in the United States. The ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Banking on benefits
People make the decision to use internet banking either because they recognize the benefits or because of peer pressure but rarely because of perceived prestige or celebrity endorsement, a study published in the International Jo ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Study: Malpractice worries help drive health costs
(AP) -- A substantial number of heart doctors - about one in four - say they order medical tests that might not be needed out of fear of getting sued, according to a new study.
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Peer pressure builds more latrines than financial assistance
Government subsidies persuade some people to change habits, but social shame works even better, suggests a recent study of efforts to reduce elevated childhood death and disease rates blamed on the microbial pathogens that ...
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Peer pressure plays major role in environmental behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- People are more likely to enroll in conservation programs if their neighbors do -- a tendency that should be exploited when it comes to protecting the environment, according to results of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Run! It's the student council president
In most movies about high school, the student council president, the so-called "band geek" or the kid who stays after school for math club often fall victim to the teasing and bullying of the popular students or "jocks."
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2009 |
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