What do you think of those mysterious and seemingly dreaded forces in our society - teenage peer groups and pressure? Do you conjure up nightmare images of gangs, drugs, sex and alcohol? If so, you ...

To what Extent does Peer Group Smoking Predict Adolescent Smoking? The tendency for adolescent peer group members to share common characteristics such as smoking, termed alternatively as peer group ...

Best friends influence a teen's emotions and grades, while popular peers dictate social media use and body image.

Why are adolescents so sensitive to their peers’ behaviour? And is this sensitivity necessarily negative, as the term peer pressure often implies? In his PhD dissertation, UvA behavioural scientist ...

As children enter adolescence, peers become a dominant force in their lives. With adult supervision waning, teens look to agemates for guidance on how to act, think and fit in. But who matters most ...

Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner states in his book Changing Minds that by about age 10 a child’s peers rather than the parents assume primary importance in the child’s decisions about what to do, ...

Most young people seem to understand that adolescence is no time to go it alone. Such social isolation can breed loneliness (“I don’t have friends to keep me company”) and ignorance (“No one tells me ...

At a social event, shortly after I started my company, I met an old Silverback. Near the end of his career, he saw I was at the beginning of mine. He offered unsolicited advice: “Become active in your ...