Do you know that what a group thinks, what others think, directly influences your behavior. This is called social pressure. This means that our actions, our thoughts, are determined or strongly influenced by the opinion of a group. In short … it is difficult to be different from the group. How does social pressure work? How does social pressure condition school results and student performance? How to get rid of it? [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgHqyqvLj6g[/embed]

Sources and references

Ash’s experience : https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/am-i-right/201404/the-astonishing-power-social-pressure Description of the experiment: https://scienceblogs.com/neurontic/2006/03/07/the-anatomy-of-conformity https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/science/what-other-people-say-may-change-what-you-see.html https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/am-i-right/201404/the-astonishing-power-social-pressure Study by Gregory Berns: https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(05)00463-4/fulltext Antonio Rangel, professor of neuroscience and leading expert in neuromarketing, says people even say they like a movie more when they hear in advance how good it is. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/wine-study-shows-price-influences-perception-1374

School Pressure and Achievement: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330818074_Students_Peer_Pressure_and_their_Academic_Performance_in_School

https://www.njedreport.com/2014/12/04/the-impact-of-peer-pressure-on-student-achievement/

Founded in 1908, the school is one of the oldest in the United States and belongs to the inner circle of the most renowned “M7” American schools of management – ​​https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg_School_of_Management

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698889/ https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/peer-pressure-can-lead-teens-underachieve-schools-cool-to-be-smart How can this social pressure be limited, particularly at school? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/making-humans/201301/the-curse-the-herd https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351247406_Creativity_Critical_Thinking_and_Academic_Performance_in_Students_University_During_Virtual_Learning