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@ Protoss: lol
@Struggz:
We know from psychology that by age 25 (for either gender), the frontal lobe is fully developed. With neurology we know that drug usage can impair or diminish development or full functionality of various parts of the brain including the frontal lobe.
We know from psychology that at various stages of development, particularly during teenage years (when people are coming into the person they will be for the rest of their lives), they can be influenced by any number of things, media predominantly over the past 30-ish years.
Few exception and extreme circumstances aside, there is nothing to indicate that a person is incapable of asking to do something before they do it, which is essentially what is happening in the case of "peer pressure."

Or let me ask you this, when was the last time you acted on the influence of a peer? (it can be good or bad)

Originally Posted by Chicanary

@KT. you didn't have to respond. Some people believe in god. Some people believe in peer pressure. Belief, opinion, whatever... call it what you want, I don't believe in it.

There's no options here. There is nothing to not believe in. It's something that has been studied extensively, and exists absolutely. Your continued refusal to accept it is mind-bogglingly ignorant.

I was totally and utterly planning on reading your whole thing but just got through some of the paragraphs. Anyhow, I'm just going to say now; peer pressure isn't real, it doesn't exist. It's a word used for people who are too ****ing stupid to make their own decisions and end up following other people doing stupid stuff. It is a word used when someone is incapable of accepting their utter ****ing moronism.

@TG, where were you the other nite? I made this post based on a conversation I had in chatbox with our peers.

@KT. you didn't have to respond. Some people believe in god. Some people believe in peer pressure. Belief, opinion, whatever... call it what you want, I don't believe in it.

This isn't a case of belief. Peer pressure is real, whether you want to acknowledge it or not.

Your tendency to rationalize your way out of reality is pretty annoying.

Of course people rarely act based on one sole factor(barring survival), you're setting up dumb, unrealistic scenarios again in order to be "correct" rather than actually explore the concept of social pressure...

I think I focused on "teen peer pressure" because that's pretty much what came up the other nite in chatbox. So I guess I'm looking at instances where an individual person could be influenced by someone in their family or part of their environment. I'm making that distinction because your examples with cops and military personnel have all the requirements for a riot. Under no circumstance does any government official/law enforcer of any government let the general public know that the people who are charged with their safety ****ed up. Even if the police officer/military personnel was correct... get it swept under the rug as quick as possible, while showing the face of someone as a hero for as long as possible. It's called damage control.

I can agree though that there's a vast amount of psychology and possibly sociology that factors into how much influence any person/group/media could have on a person. But ultimately I maintain my stance that people (few exemptions) are ever in a predicament where they must act solely based on pressures (whatever they may be) around them. I live in the USA. I have access to education, food, water, and things not afforded billions of people around the globe. There will probably never come a point in my life where I won't have the resources to make an informed decision and so have to blindly act on what amounts to a recommendation from a peer.

I hope that makes sense.

Peer pressure is a very real thing, and you may understand it better by characterizing it as "social pressure" rather than the highly specific portrayal of teen peer pressure.

When cops cover each others' ass when one of them does something wrong, there is enormous social pressure for them to do so. When soldiers cover each others' ass when **** goes down and ROE gets violated, that's social pressure. When your idol participates in a given behavior, that can exert social pressure on you. When the media runs nothing but immaculate images of females, that exerts a social pressure. Wearing certain styles of clothes, or being of certain religious backgrounds can assert social pressures on the people you interact with. The government asserts immense social pressures in how they tax the populace.

My point earlier today is that you were trying to through everything in the same "peer pressure" bucket, without considering motivation. There is a completely different psychology involved in being pressured into doing recreational drugs than being pressured to take steroids, even though they are both forms of social pressure. Cheating in academics, and taking steroids are largely perpetuated by enormous social pressures. If you cannot remain competitive in these fields it may mean the end to your livelihood, to your standard of living, to your social status, it's why people take such enormous risk even though everyone knows it's "wrong." You asked about whether I would have done steroids in high school, and that is a completely different scenario than someone else in the same situation as I don't share the same investment in my athletic performance.

To come back around to the commonly perpetuated "peer pressure" as introduced to teens: Many young individuals hold a significant investment in how they are seen by others, imitating certain social behaviors (such as drinking, recreational drug use, dressing a certain way, talking a certain way, participating in a given activity, etc.) means an elevation in social status. That being said, social pressure doesn't affect every one the same way.

The original set up in the psychology magazine was absolutely stupid, and I can see that from the way it was framed how you could draw your conclusion. There is some complex psychology at work here, and it's absolutely ridiculous to deny that this type of social pressure exists.

i went full on rant

Sorry Chica, I gave up after the first paragraph.

Holy crap. Im going have to sit down and read this when I get home, but yes peer pressure is real. That's how I started smoking and it's because you give in at a point in your life where you want to fit in.

be a drug dealer

Yeah..........I wasn't around for Duck Dynasty thread thank God. Chic you shouldn't get so worked up at comments in threads. If you have a passion go out and use it to fight the world! I get really pissed when I meet stupid people IRL, but I don't have the guts to tell them that they are stupid to their faces. Tell those people that they are stupid for the rest of us otaku!

Merry Christmas ma'am.

P.S. I hope your Auntie gets all better.

Fonda. I hope 2014 and all the other years you are alive to see, bring you a great deal of enlightenment and sensibility. Pity. You are bold, self confident, and unjustly so for you are about as bright as the average fool and even the average fool knows when to stop.

[B][COLOR=#cc0099]....By Far it was Phil himself on that thread as well as many others that where "Outrageous" imo. Including some of your Own Statements.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#cc0099]Regardless of that Chica, I hope all the best to you and yours, and I've seen your previous Blogs on this here at A4...[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#cc0099]As a woman going through her own problems right now, I do hope 2014 will be better for you and yours, regardless of our different views on Humanity. [/COLOR][/B]

this realtalk blog trumps pretty much all others. i feel for you chic

Oh you.....

tl;dr

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Man, this is a crazy world I tell you. That's why these days I find myself spending my time with my family in the comfort of my own home. It's just too unpredictable what could happen out there, I'm a warrior though, if I have to make my way to dangerous territory I find my way in.

I hope you at least enjoyed the turkey!

did you tell her to help a sister out?