A Quote by Andrew Lansley

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

Andrew Lansley

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Behavior Classic Excuses Influences Norms Peer Peer Pressure Powerful Pressure Social Social Norms

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Andrew Lansley
British - Politician
Born: December 11, 1956

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

Andrew Lansley

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Frederica Mathewes-Green

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Charles D. Hayes

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Barack Obama

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Patrick Lencioni

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

Alan K. Simpson

Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.

Sandy Berger

How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.

Kevin Leman

I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

Jess C Scott

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Jackson Katz

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Charles Murray

Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.

Eugene Mirman

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.