Dan Rollman, the founder of the fantastically quirky Universal Record Database, specializes in finding pleasure in the inane. These aren’t your ordinary, run-of-the-mill records. Current favorites on ...

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 ...

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James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. “If your friends told you to jump off a bridge, would you?” It’s a warning you probably heard in ...

Parents of teenagers often view their children's friends with something like suspicion. They worry that the adolescent peer group has the power to prod its members into behavior that is foolish and ...

As much as we talk about helping kids to resist “peer pressure,” it exists. Even for the most self-assured, independent-thinking child, social dynamics and peer relationships are an influence on ...

“It’s the situation, not the person,” goes a mantra of social psychology. That is the idea that people are influenced as much by their surroundings as by their deliberative judgements and free will.

Peer Pressure refers to the influence exerted by a person’s peer or people of similar age, states or interests, to adopt certain behaviours, attitude or values. This influence can be direct or ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Summer is when my exercise group ...

Thinking about installing solar panels, buying an electric vehicle, or eating less meat? You probably have your friends and neighbors to thank for that. A growing body of literature suggests that our ...