ArticleJournal of adolescence2020
Susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in adolescence.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Do Adolescents Adopt the Prosocial Behaviors of the Classmates They Like? A Social Network Analysis on Prosocial Contagion.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Food choice mimicry on a large university campus.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Positioning adolescence in the developmental timeline.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2024Article
- Longitudinal changes in the value and influence of parent and peer attitudes about externalizing behaviors across adolescence.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- The social transmission of empathy relies on observational reinforcement learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Prosocial behaviours and emotional intelligence as factors associated with healthy lifestyles and violence in adolescents.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Life-Course Brain Health as a Determinant of Late-Life Mental Health: American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Expert Panel Recommendations.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2023Article
- Exploring the mechanistic pathways of how social network influences social norms in adolescent smoking prevention interventions.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Social influence in adolescence as a double-edged sword.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Can substance abuse media literacy increase prediction of drug use in students?BMC psychology · 2022Article
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- What Does it Mean to be Susceptible to Influence? A Brief Primer on Peer Conformity and Developmental Changes that Affect it.International journal of behavioral development · 2022Article
- Susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in adolescence following mindfulness training.Infant and child developmentArticle
- Peer-mediated Social Signals Alter Risk Tolerance in Teenage Boys Depending on their Peers.Basic and clinical neuroscienceArticle
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introductionAdolescents are particularly susceptible to social influence and previous studies have shown that this susceptibility decreases with age. The current study used a cross-sectional experimental paradigm to investigate the effect of age and puberty on susceptibility to both prosocial and antisocial influence.
methodsParticipants (N = 520) aged 11-18 from London and Cambridge (United Kingdom) rated how likely they would be to engage in a prosocial (e.g. "help a classmate with their work") or antisocial (e.g. "make fun of a classmate") act. They were then shown the average rating (in fact fictitious) that other adolescents had given to the same question, and were then asked to rate the same behaviour again.
resultsBoth prosocial and antisocial influence decreased linearly with age, with younger adolescents being more socially influenced when other adolescents' ratings were more prosocial and less antisocial than their own initial rating. Both antisocial and prosocial influence significantly decreased across puberty for boys but not girls (independent of age).
conclusionsThese findings suggest that social influence declines with increasing maturity across adolescence. However, the exact relationship between social influence and maturity is dependent on the nature of the social influence and gender. Understanding when adolescents are most susceptible to different types of social influence, and how this might influence their social behaviour, has important implications for understanding adolescent social development.
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