Peer pressure

The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), established in 1968, and its associated ten regional councils have been reliability monitors of the electric bulk power system. Their emphasis on compliance with reliability standards through peer pressure was effective in the past. NERC and the councils, with oversight from FERC, are engaged in a complete restructuring of the reliability organizations. This move will ultimately involve a mo V c from peer pressure to mandatoi y compliance. 

May be effective - depends on your relationship with Kirsty - remember the power of peer pressure. 

Turn down offer and voice your concern and disapproval at Kirsty smoking. Remember the power of peer pressure. The disapproval of her friends may deter Kirsty from smoking. 

The theories on individual decision making from other scientific disciplines tend to stress factors such as status, social peer pressure, time availability, mood, cultural aspects, self-affirmation, altruism, and self-perception, as explanatory variables to decision making [12, 13]. These latter factors are far less favourable for economic valuation since the value would be unpredictable and varying dependent on situation. They may, however, provide an equally or even better description of decision making. 

Impatience Hasty, hurried and anxious. Impatience makes you do things you wouldn not normally do. This increases the risk taking mentality, especially if peer pressure is involved. 

Social factors such as peer pressure at school or work as well as family patterns of substance use can also contribute to the risk. Teenagers who respond to pressure to use gateway drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana in their early teens are more likely to develop substance dependence disorders than those who refrain from doing so until their late teens. 

For many addictive products, the temptation to consume declines over the course of one s life. For example, if a twenty-year-old and a sixty-year-old have both never taken cocaine, it seems likely that the temptation to take a first hit is larger for the twenty-year-old. This difference might arise from forces such as peer pressure, or the young body s physical resilience, or merely the fact that an older person tends to lose interest in novel activities. Consider the following model of addiction ... 

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) A program introduced in 1983 to help kids resist the temptation of drugs by boosting self-esteem, decision-making ability, and the ability to resist peer pressure. Experts differ about the efficacy of the program. 

Reason for taking the drug. People who take the drug of their own accord are more likely to have a positive experience than those who take it for selftherapy or because of peer pressure. 

Do teens urge other teens to use marijuana Research points out that friends definitely influence other friends when it comes to using marijuana. However, this does not seem to take the form of coercion (defined here as peer pressure ) among teens regarding the decision to use or not use marijuana. In fact, research shows that marijuana use tends to flow from a more reciprocal relationship between friends. Thus, many researchers tend to speak about peer... 

The confessionalization of humanism was not an abstract process it transformed the lives of individual humanists. Chapter 4 describes their anxieties in the face of peer pressure and intimidation by the authorities. At first, humanists, following Erasmus example, attempted to remain on the sidelines of the debate. Erasmus refusal to take sides was predicated on the idea that the truth must be carefully bus-... 

Myers, Arthur. Drugs and Peer Pressure. New York Rosen, 1995. 

It stresses the importance of staying away from peer-pressure situations. 

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