Study suggests people become susceptible to social influence around age 12

Medical X-Press – Bob Yirka

An international team of researchers has found evidence that suggests children begin to become susceptible to social influence when they reach age 12. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes experiments they conducted with 155 children between the ages of six and 14 (some of whom were autistic) and what they found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-01-people-susceptible-social-age.html