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Revision as of 19:04, December 2, 2008
In his essay "Good or bad, what teachers expect from students they generally get", R Tauber wrote the following about expectation
One's expectations about a person can eventually lead that person to behave and achieve in ways that confirm those expectations.
The Pygmalion effect is "the idea that one's expectations about a person can eventually lead that person to behave and achieve in ways that confirm those expectations"[2]
References
See also
- Expectation (math)
- Placebo effect
- Subject-expectancy effect
- Double-blind studies, [[blind experiment]