| The professor argues that tweenagers are influenced by peer pressure and that branding helps them to become part of groups. |
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| They pay special attention to the way social responsibilities are fostered by informal communal processes of persuasion and peer pressure. |
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| At the impressionable ages between 13 and 16 peer pressure is the biggest influence. |
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| Medical decisions should be made outside the influence of alcohol or peer pressure. |
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| Subsequently peer pressure and blackmail of friendship are often major contributing pull factors. |
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| It can be triggered by peer pressure, media pressure or sudden traumas such as divorce or death. |
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| I'm really not proud of what we did to this kid, but peer pressure makes you do weird things. |
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| This would teach them about humility and the appreciation of life without getting involved with aggression and peer pressure. |
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| It has become common to find even girls in pubs because of peer pressure and the influence of TV and films. |
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| Kids might start smoking because of peer pressure, to relieve stress, or to rebel against their parents. |
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| Asked about the motivation for the vandalism, he said it was simply a case of very juvenile, immature peer pressure. |
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| Is it a copycat robbery, peer pressure, a particularly easy mark, or something else? |
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| Others give in to some influences, such as friends and peer pressure, but aren't so malleable that they can be forced to do doltish things. |
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| Some of this is part of an adolescent revolt against authority dictated by peer pressure. |
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| Perhaps peer pressure is the biggest influence in this respect but where do they get their attitudes from? |
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| This is peer pressure, societal pressure and all the other social norms exerting their influence on you. |
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| The power of peer pressure can be gauged by the automatic and predictable responses to challenges. |
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| But there is no peer pressure that you should read, play an instrument or that you should go to exhibitions. |
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| But isn't a little bit of exposure to peer pressure and bullying a part of preparation for adulthood? |
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| Fitting in often meant dealing with peer pressure to use drugs or drink alcohol or pick on other students. |
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| This created peer pressure and the cultivation of rough manners, coarse language and status symbols like the body tattoos. |
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| Some players tease him, but Paul brushes off peer pressure without dismissing his peers. |
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| The power of peer pressure is that it works on our psychology, not our intellect. |
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| Otherwise he argues, more will continue to start drinking at an early age and will become victims of peer pressure. |
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| Factors like peer pressure and the accessibility of cigarettes might lead them to try smoking. |
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| In science, as in so many fields, peer pressure and ridicule are tough to bear. |
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| At this age they are less likely to feel influenced by peer pressure, said researchers. |
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| We survived with just two till our son arrived and then succumbed to peer pressure and raised their strength to three. |
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| One of the main problems is peer pressure which often dictates that it is good for your street credibility to drink branded fizzy drinks. |
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| Informal social control occurs through peer pressure, gossip, and fear of harmful magic known as obeah. |
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| They want to be hip and happening, but the peer pressure of a myopic public usually stifles a sense of invention and experimentation. |
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| But please, please do not again fall for the blandishments of peer pressure without asking why. |
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| The lower court had held that such a marriage left the child open to peer pressure and stigmatisation. |
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| The common reaction to peer pressure is the parental guilt trip. |
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| More formally too there is evidence of how factors such as peer pressure or a discordant home can have long-term consequences that affect learning. |
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| Now, a psychologist has devised a new method that may reduce the effect of peer pressure. |
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| Family pressure had been joined by peer pressure as a critical shaper of youth. |
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| Teenagers also have a sense of invincibility and are highly susceptible to peer pressure. |
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| The method's effectiveness therefore relies on a form of peer pressure and naming and shaming. |
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| On the surface, crimes motivated by profit are different from those driven by passion, peer pressure or simple perversity of human nature. |
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| If we all learn to exercise peer pressure, we will be able to achieve results. |
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| The Internal Market Scoreboard has proved to be a very effective tool to ensure transparency and leverage peer pressure. |
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| It also publishes an exhaustive analysis, by Member State, of historical forecasting performance to create peer pressure. |
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| This is primarily a matter of persuasion and peer pressure rather than prescription. |
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| For example, peer pressure could affect students' decisions about participation in the research. |
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| Important issues emerged regarding the influence of peer pressure and acceptable standards of behaviour among young people in relation to risk-taking behaviours. |
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| High schools are remaking yearbooks to more accurately reflect student populations amid larger societal concerns about bullying, peer pressure, and self-esteem. |
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| Other beings have independent desires that are shaped and influenced by all manner of things from peer pressure to economics to physics to biology. |
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| The wealthiest Republican Party boosters will resent the assertion that peer pressure and ego motivate their giving. |
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| Being statistically insignificant, Alexander and I had no role models, we had no peer pressure. |
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| Yet she agrees they are highly susceptible to peer pressure. |
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| At the age of twelve I was influenced by peer pressure and started to drink cider which is a popular drink among young people as it is cheap and strong. |
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| You don't have to bow to peer pressure and get fake designer handbag. |
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| Spaceman, the track expressed the need to keep true to oneself despite outside peer pressure, in the same way that a visitor from another planet would be free from earthly influences. |
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| Positive peer pressure is a major booster for a healthy culture. |
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| Mr Stacey, who has 80 dairy cattle at Gorsehill Abbey Farm in Worcestershire, said there can be peer pressure to use antibiotics in certain circumstances, such as with mastitis after calving. |
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| Plus, there is peer pressure to say that it's all snake oil. |
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| The teams quickly earned the trust of headmasters, however, by adapting their shows for various age groups and by emphasizing the importance of knowing limits, asking for advice, seeking treatment and resisting peer pressure. |
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| What emerges is that decision-making is an everyday process and one must constantly be on guard so that external factors such as unemployment, environment and peer pressure do not lead to regrettable decisions. |
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| Don't hold them back because of the latest trendy theory about ability grouping or political correctness or fairness or peer pressure. |
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| Negative peer pressure, low self-concept, anxiety, depression, school functioning and parental relationships are more powerful in influencing substance use. |
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| Two of the most commonly reported motivations for stealing vehicles are excitement and peer pressure, as the delinquent act provides an escape from boredom and a way to gain status amongst peers. |
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| Petty thefts almost always get corrected by peer pressure. |
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| Moreover, enhancing the functioning of dissuasion and peer pressure in the Council would significantly contribute to improving the working of the coordination of fiscal policies. |
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| Although some accountability within the team may be possible because of personal relationships and peer pressure, formal accountability still rests within agency structures. |
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| In other words, Courtright said peer pressure is an important social force beyond junior high school. |
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| It's hard to swim upstream, to resist peer pressure. |
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| Some would call it keeping up with the Joneses, but I preferred her description of peer pressure. |
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| Children and young people could participate in the volunteer teams, particularly in areas where peer pressure is a major push factor into exploitation and trafficking. |
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| They exerted such intimidating peer pressure that museums and laboratories throughout Europe quietly began to discard their meteorite collections lest the great men in Paris think they were backward. |
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| By adding uncertainty to fiscal monitoring, they reduce the value of multilateral surveillance procedures and, thus, weaken the effectiveness of peer pressure. |
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| Of course, effective monitoring requires adherence by members to the policy framework, it requires peer pressure and consequences to deal with deviant behaviour, and it requires reliable statistics. |
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| Methods used to lower the childs resistance include friendship, playing games, giving rewards, hobbies or interests that appeal to the child, and using peer pressure. |
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| The effectiveness of peer pressure to discourage Member States from not complying with their legal obligations, in the form of naming, shaming, and, if necessary, blaming, could be enhanced. |
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| So while it's impossible to shield your children from the peer pressure of what clothes to wear or what music to listen to, it is possible to guide them toward making decisions that can keep them safe and out of harm's way. |
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| Initially, through peer pressure exerted through the Committee, the focus was to achieve compliance with existing regulations and to encourage voluntary v-notching of egg-bearing females. |
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| The program focuses on acquisition of basic cognitive skills, social and life skills training to promote social competency and resistance to peer pressure. |
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| Finally for the mutual support and peer pressure. |
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| Learn not to buckle to peer pressure and you'll be the happier. |
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| Cheap drink, lad culture, non-stop advertising, peer pressure and an over-arching booze lifestyle have given us a critical social problem unmatched in few other countries. |
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| She vowed to give up drinking during the exam period, but eventually succumbed to peer pressure and was out drinking with her friends within a week of the resolution. |
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| Through the course of the workshop, the facilitators engage in open discussion with the children to enable them to recognise bullying and negative peer pressure. |
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