As I indicated in my Letter to the Editor earlier this week, I am learning the difference between positive and negative peer pressure. I want to be the type of person who does things because of my ...

Neil Bernstein, a clinical psychologist writes about how to understand peer pressure, sex and talk to teenagers about it. You can read an excerpt from his book, "How to Keep Your Teenagers Out of ...

We’ve all heard the saying “If you show me who your friends are, I can tell you who you are.” When we think of peer pressure, we often think of negative peer pressure, such as convincing a friend to ...

The phone call came about because the junior camp took a day trip to Dorney Park. Since a number of 17-year-old Jason's friends are CITs, he planned a Dorney trip himself to meet up with them. I told ...

"Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World" (W.W. Norton and Co.), by Tina Rosenberg: When Tina Rosenberg told people she was writing a book on peer pressure, they assumed the worst.

Peer-pressure can make people do bad things. Trying recreational drugs for the first time is often linked to being around peers that use drugs. First time recreational drug users are often led down a ...