When I was a child, one of the things that upset me the most was watching friends be mean to other kids—whether it was a classmate they didn’t like or someone who was just going about their day being ...

The bane of many parents’ existence, peer pressure, is a topic I am often asked to address. “He just got in with the wrong crowd.” “She is just under the influence of that dirt-bag boyfriend.” Or, ...

Taking advantage of all the social transparency Facebook has created, one app puts all of our energy usage out there for our friends to see, hoping competition and peer pressure will encourage better ...

BURLINGTON — Parents have been pressuring me to give them some tips to help their children deal with peer pressure. Let me see if I can decompress some of their concerns and provide some information ...

What many commentators describe as an addiction is actually a powerful social norm at work. The distinction matters. Read About How Hotels Get You To Reuse Towels. Everyone’s Doing It Researchers have ...

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 ...

Jin Yang, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Memphis, recently conducted an online survey of professors who record their lectures and offer the recordings online to students.