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• Group pressure may have positive or negative consequences for
performance
- Performance pressure
- Performance restraints

 The level of group pressure is positively related to narrowing performance rather than to a level of performance.

Put differently: The correlation between cohesion and performance is positive if the group standards are high and negative if the group standards are low.

• Success and performance may also be a reason for, rather than a
consequence of, group cohesion  inverse causality

• Cohesive groups are more productive if the cohesion rests on task and activity-based attractiveness