Developmental Study of Conformity to Unlike-Sex Peer Pressure

The relationship between age and unlike-sex peer pressure was studied by requiring an individual to contradict an obviously and unanimously wrong decision by a majority group of 5, of which he was the sixth member and the only representative of his sex. 100 male and female students between the ages of 5 and 19 yr. acted as Ss. No differences were found between the sexes to unlike-sex pressure but conformity showed a decreasing linear relationship to age.