Sentence examples for peer behaviour from inspiring English sources

The authors attributed this to "perceived peer behaviour".

One existing study suggests that this is not the case; criminal justice students were more strongly affected by peer behaviour compared with non-criminal justice students (Tibbetts 1998).

Opportunity theory can explain the inconsistent nature of deviant behaviour over time in a way that appeals to factors such as understanding/accepting academic integrity policy, existence of honour codes, and perceptions of peer behaviour cannot (McCabe & Trevino, 1993).

However, among 1,159 students surveyed in nine undergraduate universities in the UK, peer disapproval (−0.062) and fraternity/sorority membership (0.070) were correlated much more strongly with cheating than peer behaviour (0.029) (McCabe & Treviño 1997, p. 389).

One speculative explanation for this may be that criminal justice and policing students are not influenced by peer behaviour to the same extent as students in other disciplines but this requires further research.

Given the influence of peer behaviour and disapproval, it is not surprising that, among 6,000 students surveyed at 31 universities, 66% of those "at non-[honour]-code schools reported one or more transgressions on written work compared to 42% of … [those] at code schools" (McCabe & Treviño, 1996).

Adolescents in particular have been found to be strongly influenced by peer behaviours and norms [ 38, 39].

Unfortunately, our work lacked information about parent and adolescent peer behaviours, which are known to be important risk factors for smoking.

The peering behaviour of grasshoppers, for example, has inspired the design of new rangefinding systems.

You should also be able to change your peers' behaviour and the way they interact with you – do that, and you'll be influential regardless of the extent to which your influence is scientific.

In the absence of these, conforming to peers' behaviour utilizes social validation to inform choice.