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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS– 16-year olds are now cleared to ...

Did you hear about the ship that was faulted for damaging a large dock? They said it caused unnecessary pier pressure. (Lame joke, I know – but I’m a dad, so I’m told that makes it okay.) But growing ...

When we think about peer pressure, we immediately think it is a force ruining our society. Not only can it hurt the victim, but it can also impact the people around us. Peer pressure strongly ...

I’m 38 years old with enough invested for traditional retirement. Here’s how positive peer pressure helped me, and can help you, accelerate your retirement savings. Six years ago, I found myself in ...

Is it possible to make the world a better place by applying a new paradigm to the age-old concept called “peer pressure”? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tina Rosenberg and publisher W.W. Norton are ...

New Hampstead High School senior Promise Cooper's role as a Positive Peer Influencer for the the Mediation Center of the Coastal Empire helped a middle schooler at New Hampstead K-8 School to walk ...

These are the days flooded with awareness programmes geared towards motivating the community, especially youth and teenagers, to say no to addictive substances. Classes, marathons, human chains, and ...