Conventional wisdom Quote by Robert S. Kaplan

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

— Andrew Lansley

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

— Andrew Lansley

We are trying to learn from the consequences of one's peers' actions.

— Drew Pinsky

“The three social influences that we have emphasized—information, peer pressure, and priming—can easily be enlisted by private and public nudgers. As we will see,…

— Richard H. Thaler

“In the democratic, egalitarian spirit of our day, we hold in suspicion positions of social authority, yet we submit to the power of peers.…

— Mark Sayers

We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and…

— O. S. Hawkins

Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer…

— Charles D. Hayes

“When trying to get people to change familiar ways of doing things, social pressures and constraints exerted by the informal peer group represent the…

— Lee Ross

The psychological peer pressure that the left has employed - and deployed, actually - on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It has created…

— Rush Limbaugh

Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter…

— Cass Sunstein

On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem