Voters have received brochure after brochure from campaigns and organizations urging them to vote for a candidate, issue or to vote in general. Some brochures frame their opponents as the most evil ...

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 ...

DR. WALLACE: As the parent of two teenagers, I'm constantly worried about my teens potentially succumbing to peer pressure. I've heard horror stories from other parents who explained that they had a ...

Social pressure during adolescence, a stage in which children begin to yearn for acceptance and to feel part of a group, is a cause of cyberbullying, as a series of self-justifications lead those who ...

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 ...

When Slate's Daniel Gross publicly posted his electricity and heating oil usage rates, he didn't anticipate how many readers would write in to lambaste him as an energy "porker." But this led Gross to ...

In seventh grade, Nathan Maynard joined a gang, hoping it would give him the sense of belonging he lacked at home. But his new friends only led him to make poor decisions, and he was sent to the ...