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AGE AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SAME SEX PEER PRESSURE
Author(s) -
COLLINS J. K.,
THOMAS N. T.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1972.tb00700.x
Subject(s) - conformity , psychology , peer pressure , peer group , developmental psychology , age groups , demography , social psychology , sociology
S ummary . 100 male and female students between the ages of 5 and 19 years were subjected individually to an obviously and unanimously wrong decision by a group of their same‐sex peers. Conformity differed among the age groups but not between the sexes. Maximum conformity was found in the adolescent age group.