likely to perform better. This is supported by Brickman who stated “sometimes telling a person that he has done well, that is giving him success feedback, leads to a better subsequent task performance than telling him that he has done poorly, that is, giving him failure feedback”. This is an example of intristic reinforcers. It was surprising that negative social pressure did not have any effect on performance. One of the possible reasons for it could be that the negative pressure group was not large enough to represent a population. In conclusion, I do believe that ones’ social identity is directly linked to how social pressure is directly linked to performance in school. ...
