Peer Influence on Choice of Major
Did you choose your major based on peer pressure? In today’s Academic Minute, part of University of St. Thomas Week, Shinwon Noh says many students do.
Social norms are shifting, but we have more work to do to curb problematic behavior on campuses. In today’s Academic Minute, Amherst College’s Catherine Sanderson explores ways to do so. Sanderson is the Poler Family Professor of Psychology at Amherst and author of Why We Act: Turning Bystanders Into Moral Rebels (Harvard University Press, 2022). A transcript of this podcast can be found here.