The recent deluge of experiments on teacher expectations has failed to provide consistent and unambiguous findings. It is argued in this paper that one of the primary reasons for the inconsistent ...

A self-fulfilling prophecy is best described as a belief or expectation that ultimately brings about its own fulfillment, often through a circular pattern where the expectation influences one’s ...

"A clear benefit of the self-prophecy technique is its simplicity: a question followed by a simple "yes" or "no" elicits behavioral change," explain Eric R. Spangenberg and David E. Sprott (Washington ...

Do you ever wake up and everything seems to go wrong? You drop your toothbrush with the toothpaste on it, shampoo gets in your eye, and you top it off with spilling your cup of coffee. You proclaim ...

Financial educator Abi Foster said she calls out friends who say they're bad with money. "They convince themselves, and it becomes like a self-fulfilling prophecy," Foster told Business Insider. She ...