While Asch's work illustrated how peer pressure influences social behavior, often in negative ways, Asch believed that people tend to behave decently towards each other (Ketchum, 1955). ... During the 1950s, Asch became famous for his series of experiments, known as the Asch conformity experiments, which demonstrated the effects of social pressure on conformity (Gleitman, Rozin & Sabini, 1997). ... However, conformity can have more serious consequences in school, work, and peer setting especially since levels of conformity are presumed to be much higher in real world situations than in...

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Norms Beyond Awareness We conform to these norms without even knowing that we feel these pressures. ... FORCES THAT INDUCE THE ACCEPTANCE OF GROUP NORMS The process by which a group brings pressure on its members to conform to its norms, or by which a member manipulates the behaviour of others, is the process of social influence. ...

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Some of these problems include anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, aggression, and not being able to get along with their peers. ... Children who do not know when to use the right emotions in certain situations may even become aggressive when being around their peers. ... A child living in poverty is under a lot of stress at that age, and that causes him or her to act out with their peers. ...

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This has caused children and teenagers to be more vulnerable to peer pressure and have an inadequate capability for self-regulation. ... Peer pressure is very susceptible in people of any age but specifically to teenagers (Burleigh). ...

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Bullying and peer victimization are extremely dangerous precipitators" (p. 271). ... For example, a teenager with a slight case of depression starts to get bullied by a peer group at school. ... People who are in that higher social class know that this is the stereotype they are in so whenever they are depressed or suicidal, they feel all of this pressure to not let the less powerful see this side of them because it is somewhat socially deviant. ...

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(Bluebond-Langner, 1978, p.157) The children also discuss their illnesses and the medical procedures amongst themselves: They sought out peers for information on the purposes of various treatments and procedures. They formulated hypotheses about the relationship between various symptoms and the drugs, procedures, or treatments employed, and checked them out with their peers they know they"ll get a straight answer [from them]. ... They are seeking ways to express their feelings, to let off some of the pressures that can be building up inside. ...

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Marketers must exercise care in analyzing consumer behaviour. Consumers often turn down what appears to be a winning offer. As soon as managers believe that they understand their consumers, buyer decisions are made that appear to be irrational. But what looks like irrational behaviour to a manager is completely rational to the consumer. Buying behaviour is never simple. ...

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