http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070725093605.htm - Resisting Peer Pressure: New Findings Shed Light On Adolescent Decision-making

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The capacity to resist peer pressure in early adolescence may depend on the strength of connections between certain areas of the brain, according to a study carried out by University of Nottingham researchers.

New findings suggest that enhanced connections across brain regions involved in decision-making may underlie an individual's ability to resist the influence of peers.
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Amazingly enough, the machine you run on actually impacts how you work, contrary to the we absolutely control everything crowd.

Just for the sake of being contrary to you I would argue that previous decisions are what reinforced and created those bonds and connections to begin with. So nyeh.

> I would argue that previous decisions

So there is no first step in the ladder.

Yes, and most men love women because it's reinforced through their fantasy.

...nor complete forgiveness for stepping the wrong way.

Ahhh what lovely timing :)

This tells me that resistance to peer-pressure is a learned behavior, as learning is the creation of new paths in the brain.

They speak of the capacity to resist it, but what of the tendency to follow it?

Humans have been a sort of pack/herd animal forever, right?

> This tells me that resistance to peer-pressure is a learned behavior, as learning is the creation of new paths in the brain.

You can't learn what you brain isn't ready to learn yet. It's like saying a 2 year old calculus is just a learned behaviour. A 2 year old has a lot of infrastructure to lay down first before they are ready for that.

sop, you are amazing. You have answer for everything. You post these little posts of yours with no real comments other than "fascinating" and "interesting". Then when others have some real comments you shoot them down.

That's why you should always start off simply criticizing whatever point is being made. If you can't criticize that, then attack the source. If that doesn't work, summon muppet to call her names.

Yup, it's Turtles, all the way down.

> You post these little posts of yours with no real comments other than "fascinating" and "interesting".

Sometimes I do sometimes I don't. If I don't have anything to say yet I think it's interesting I'll often post it. You always have a problem with that and I don't understand why.

"The capacity to resist peer pressure in early adolescence may depend on the strength of connections between certain areas of the brain, according to a study carried out by University of Nottingham researchers.

New findings suggest that enhanced connections across brain regions involved in decision-making may underlie an individual's ability to resist the influence of peers."

Let me translate:

Smart people who can think for themselves find it easier to resist going along with what other people tell them to think.

It took a research project to discover this?

> Smart people who can think for themselves find it easier to resist going along with what other people tell them to think.


Neocons are pretty smart. Yet they line up like sheep to the slaughter. Try again.

Neocons are those in charge.

Most "conservatives" only care about money.