 Self-verification theory predicts that when people interact with others, there is a general tendency for them to bring others to see them as they see themselves.This tendency is especially pronounced when they start out believing that the other person has misconstrued them, apparently because people compensate by working especially hard to bring others to confirm their self-views.People will even stop working on tasks to which they have been assigned if they sense that their performance is eliciting non-verifying feedback.