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Peer Pressure

Peer Pressure. Normative Positive Negative. Normative.

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Peer Pressure

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  1. Peer Pressure Normative Positive Negative

  2. Normative • Most teenagers want to have friends and fit in with a certain group of students. It’s the reason you see cliques at school and why certain fads come and go. People jump on the bandwagon with certain clothes, hairstyles or activities because somebody deemed them temporarily cool. This is normal behavior. Each generation has its own style or fad.Some of this peer dynamic will diminish with age, but adults do this too – usually with houses, cars and accessories. Ask students what latest fad or trend is in style now at school.

  3. Positive • Peer pressure doesn’t always have to be negative. Friends can pull you up, just as easy as drag you down.

  4. The Pact • Three kids grew up in inner-city Newark, New Jersey, riddled with crime, drugs and death in the 1980’s. They had no role models and had every excuse to become drug-dealers, criminals or hustlers. Two of the three spent time in juvenile-detention centers in their teens. However, the other had a dream of becoming a dentist and persuaded his two best friends to enter a college program for minority students interested in becoming doctors. They knew they wouldn’t make it on their own, so they made a pact “to become doctors and to help each other out, no matter what.” Today, they are all doctors. They credit this pact and their positive peer pressure as the reasons for their success. They have appeared on Oprah and recently wrote a book entitled The Pact, detailing their difficult journeys.

  5. Heroes of Flight 93 • Think back to September 11, 2001. Even though this may not be the first example you might think of when it comes to positive peer pressure, the hostages on Flight 93 banded together to demonstrate bravery in a hopeless situation. As these passengers learned what was happening to other hijacked planes, they made a decision to try to overtake the hijackers and regain control of the plane. In some ways they weren’t successful because they all died, but their efforts saved the lives of countless other Americans. It’s amazing to think about what we’re all capable of doing in trying circumstances. A group of strangers came together to change the course of history, and they will always be remembered as heroes.

  6. Negative • Peer pressure can have negative and troubling effects. • Teenagers have inflated perceptions that “everyone is doing it.”

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