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  2. Peer pressure - Wikipedia

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    Peer conformity in young people is most pronounced with respect to style, taste, appearance, ideology, and values. [10] Peer pressure is commonly associated with episodes of adolescent risk-taking because these activities commonly occur in the company of peers. [9]

  3. Peer group - Wikipedia

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    Self-reports, peer nominations, teacher ratings, counselor ratings, and parent reports were collected, and results showed a strong correlation between deviant peer groups and sexual promiscuity. Many teens claimed that the reasons for having sex at a young age include peer pressure or pressure from their partner.

  4. Adolescent clique - Wikipedia

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    Adolescents spend far less time with their parents and begin participating in both structured and unstructured peer activities. [3]: p.151 Without the direct presence of their parents or other adults, their peer network begins to become the primary context for most socialization and activity. There was an explanation given by B. Bradford Brown ...

  5. New poll finds the key to mobilizing young voters could be ...

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    The secret to getting young people to vote? Potentially, peer pressure. Those between the ages of 18-29 who believed that their friends planned to vote were more than twice as likely to say they ...

  6. When It Comes to Money, Millennials Bow to Peer Pressure - AOL

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    Getty Images Peer pressure lives on after high school, at least for millennials, those Americans currently ages 25 to 34. ... According to the survey, 70 percent of younger adults think financial ...

  7. Workplace 'peer pressure' may help you form healthy habits - AOL

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    Both smoking and sitting are highly influenced by social norms and peer pressure. People tend to start smoking because their friends smoke, and they quit if nobody around them smokes. Similarly ...

  8. Alcohol use among college students - Wikipedia

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    Peer pressure may occur in multiple forms. One of the more indirect forms of peer pressure is social modelling. [20] In this method, the more "popular" people from a group could be consuming alcohol, and pressure others to drink in excess to fit in and be part of the larger group. [20]

  9. Adolescence - Wikipedia

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    Susceptibility to peer pressure increases during early adolescence, peaks around age 14, and declines thereafter. [161] Further evidence of peers hindering social development has been found in Spanish teenagers, where emotional (rather than solution-based) reactions to problems and emotional instability have been linked with physical aggression ...