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  2. Peer pressure - Wikipedia

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    These versions of digital peer pressure exist between youth, adults and businesses. In some cases, people can feel pressure to make themselves available 24/7 or to be perfect. [60] Within this digital conversation there can be pressure to conform, especially as people are impacted by the frequency of times others hit the like button. [61]

  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. Sociometric status - Wikipedia

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    Sociometric status is a measurement that reflects the degree to which someone is liked or disliked by their peers as a group. While there are some studies that have looked at sociometric status among adults, the measure is primarily used with children and adolescents to make inferences about peer relations and social competence.

  5. Youth culture - Wikipedia

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    In this transitory state, dependence on the peer group serves as a stand-in for parents. [10] Burlingame restated this hypothesis in 1970. He wrote that adolescents replace parents with the peer group and that this reliance on the peer group diminishes as youth enter adulthood and take on adult roles. [11]

  6. Social influence - Wikipedia

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    There are three processes of attitude change as defined by Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman in a 1958 paper published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. [1] The purpose of defining these processes was to help determine the effects of social influence: for example, to separate public conformity (behavior) from private acceptance (personal belief).

  7. Premarital sex - Wikipedia

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    Several polls have indicated peer pressure as a factor in encouraging both girls and boys to have sex. [7] [8] A majority of Americans have had premarital sex, according to a 2007 article in Public Health Reports. This is true for current young adults and also young adults in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

  8. Social multiplier effect - Wikipedia

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    Using only observational data, a researcher may find it impossible to disentangle social interactions within a group from other types of similarities within a group.This challenge to the identifiability of social multiplier effects is known in econometrics as the "reflection problem", following an influential 1993 paper by Charles F. Manski.

  9. Crowds (adolescence) - Wikipedia

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    Crowds serve an essential purpose in adolescent identity development, shaping individual values, behavior, and personal and peer expectations."[One's group] is often tantamount to one's own provisional identity;" [9] the individual defines herself by the crowd she sees herself fitting into.