Chunk #20 — PEER INFLUENCE MECHANISMS — Peer Influence Mechanisms: Adolescents Engage in Behaviors That Match the Social Norms of a Valued or Desired Group
correction of erroneous perceptions may offer a fruitful redirection of peer influence in harmful behavioral domains; however, work from the past decade has suggested that successful application of this strategy may depend on such factors as the target adolescent population and the ability of the population to identify with the peers who exhibit the “corrected” norm (see Prentice, 2008, for a review).
