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Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children.

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Haun, DBM; Tomasello, M
Published in: Child development
November 2011

Both adults and adolescents often conform their behavior and opinions to peer groups, even when they themselves know better. The current study investigated this phenomenon in 24 groups of 4 children between 4;2 and 4;9 years of age. Children often made their judgments conform to those of 3 peers, who had made obviously erroneous but unanimous public judgments right before them. A follow-up study with 18 groups of 4 children between 4;0 and 4;6 years of age revealed that children did not change their "real" judgment of the situation, but only their public expression of it. Preschool children are subject to peer pressure, indicating sensitivity to peers as a primary social reference group already during the preschool years.

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Child development

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1467-8624

ISSN

0009-3920

Publication Date

November 2011

Volume

82

Issue

6

Start / End Page

1759 / 1767

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Facilitation
  • Social Conformity
  • Size Perception
  • Reality Testing
  • Peer Group
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual
  • Male
  • Judgment
  • Humans
  • Female
 

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Haun, D. B. M., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children. Child Development, 82(6), 1759–1767. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01666.x
Haun, Daniel B. M., and Michael Tomasello. “Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children.Child Development 82, no. 6 (November 2011): 1759–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01666.x.
Haun DBM, Tomasello M. Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children. Child development. 2011 Nov;82(6):1759–67.
Haun, Daniel B. M., and Michael Tomasello. “Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children.Child Development, vol. 82, no. 6, Nov. 2011, pp. 1759–67. Epmc, doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01666.x.
Haun DBM, Tomasello M. Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children. Child development. 2011 Nov;82(6):1759–1767.
Journal cover image

Published In

Child development

DOI

EISSN

1467-8624

ISSN

0009-3920

Publication Date

November 2011

Volume

82

Issue

6

Start / End Page

1759 / 1767

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Facilitation
  • Social Conformity
  • Size Perception
  • Reality Testing
  • Peer Group
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual
  • Male
  • Judgment
  • Humans
  • Female