Stereotypes can fuel teen misbehaviour

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 04:07 in Psychology & Sociology

Drinking. Drugs. Caving into peer pressure. When parents expect their teenagers to conform to negative stereotypes, those teens are in fact more likely to do so, according to new research by Christy Buchanan, professor of psychology at Wake Forest University...

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