As for a specific group of people resistant to peer pressure—psychopaths. Psychopaths don’t conform to peer pressure easily—or any kind of pressure, for that matter. Many of them are in fact willing to murder, sit in jail, or otherwise become very ostracized if it aligns with whatever goals they have in mind. I’d wager that the fact that a large percentage of psychopaths literally end up jailed speaks for itself—they just don’t mind the consequences that much.
This is easily explained due to psychopaths being fearless and mostly lacking empathy. As far as I recall, some physiological correlates exist—psychopaths have a low cortisol response to stressors compared to normies. On top of the apparent fact that they are indifferent towards others’ feelings, some brain imaging data supports this as well.
What they might be more vulnerable to is that peer pressure sometimes goes hand in hand with power and success. Psychopaths like power and success, and they might therefore play along with rules to get more of what they want. That might look like caving in to peer pressure, but judging by how the pathology is contemporarily understood, I’d still say it’s not the pressure itself, but the benefits aligned with succumbing to it.
As for a specific group of people resistant to peer pressure—psychopaths. Psychopaths don’t conform to peer pressure easily—or any kind of pressure, for that matter. Many of them are in fact willing to murder, sit in jail, or otherwise become very ostracized if it aligns with whatever goals they have in mind. I’d wager that the fact that a large percentage of psychopaths literally end up jailed speaks for itself—they just don’t mind the consequences that much.
This is easily explained due to psychopaths being fearless and mostly lacking empathy. As far as I recall, some physiological correlates exist—psychopaths have a low cortisol response to stressors compared to normies. On top of the apparent fact that they are indifferent towards others’ feelings, some brain imaging data supports this as well.
What they might be more vulnerable to is that peer pressure sometimes goes hand in hand with power and success. Psychopaths like power and success, and they might therefore play along with rules to get more of what they want. That might look like caving in to peer pressure, but judging by how the pathology is contemporarily understood, I’d still say it’s not the pressure itself, but the benefits aligned with succumbing to it.