Children with co-occurring persistent pain and mental health symptoms face higher risk for early substance use, but the ...

Widely covered by the media, the PISA "shock" (2012) crowned France champion of educational inequality. A. Riegert's dissertation revisits sensitive topics such as segregation, inequality, and peer ...

Peers have a paradoxical influence on each other's educational decisions. On one hand, students are prone to conform to each other's ambitious educational decisions and, on the other hand, are ...

Peer influence among physicians affects the repeated use of new prescription drugs, according to a study published in Marketing Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the ...

The recent controversy surrounding bullying at Cedar Creek School has served to illustrate the dark side of peer pressure, and left many parents wondering what they can do to help protect their own ...

Did you choose your major based on peer pressure? In today’s Academic Minute, part of University of St. Thomas Week, Shinwon Noh says many students do. Noh is an assistant professor of ...

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 ...

Peer pressure has always been a part of childhood but in today’s world it takes many new forms. From wanting to own the latest gadgets to comparing lifestyles such as arriving at school in an ...