Expectation

Robert Tauber wrote:

• "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"

See also

• Expectation (math)
• Placebo effect
• Subject-expectancy effect
• self-fulfilling prophecy
• Double-blind studies, blind experiment