“ Seeking help could even be framed as socially desirable.” Kinda buried an important part at the end of the article. Just last week I was doing a (not so rigo

“ Seeking help could even be framed as socially desirable.” Kinda buried an important part at the end of the article. Just last week I was doing a (not so rigorous) literature review on positive peer pressure for a work project, and in the largest meta study I could find, the conclusion was basically that the effect of peer influence depends on what’s cool to kids, and whether or not participation is publicly known to all peers. Anecdotally in a design project for pediatric emergency rooms that I worked on in grad school, our team observed kids not disclosing minor accidents to their parents, oftentimes with the parent(s) swearing that their kid would never not tell them something.