Part one of term paper
The current experiment investigates the effects of different types of social pressure on academic performance of entering freshmen. Ninety undergraduate students (45 males and 45 females) were randomly assigned to three equal groups. Students of the first group experienced positive social pressure and their first semester GPA's were used as ...

Part two of term paper
... showed that the significance of the effect was found between the positive and control groups as well as the positive and negative groups. The Role of Social Pressure on Academic Performance of Entering Freshmen According to Rosabeth Kanter (1977), the more isolated the minority group members are among majority persons, the less likely they are to be successful academically. However, the higher the proportion of minority members in a group, the more likely they are to be successful. She also sugge ...