David Myers Social Beliefs And Judgments

In chapter 3 of the Social Psychology, the psychologist David Myers talks about interesting topics under the title of Social Beliefs and Judgments. In this chapter, he focuses on important concepts and one of them is self-fulfilling prophecy. As Myers (2014) said, “When our ideas lead us to act in ways that produce their apparent confirmation, they have become what sociologist Robert Merton (1948) termed self-fulfilling prophecies” (p.109). So basically he talks about beliefs that may lead people to their own fulfillment either in a positive or a negative way.
Furthermore, I chose an article called “The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” written by Joachim Isaksen, because it has been provided with some good examples that deal with the idea of self-fulfilling.