Self-fullfilling prophecy is the idea where an individual acts based off a prediction, causing the prediction to become true. For example, if you wake up one morning and predict that your day will be dreadful , you will tend to notice the dreadful situations that occur during the day, hence making your prediction come true.
According to The Antioch Review, Self-fulfilling prophecy is how people respond to a certain situation and what that situation means for the individual. Once the individual has a meaning to the current situation at hand, they begin to mold their behaviour to fit the consequences of the predicted situation (Merton, 1948). The Antioch Review continues with an example of a self-fulfilling prophecy, “Convinced that he is destined to fail, the anxious student devotes more time to worry than to study and then turns in a poor examination” (Merton, 1948, p. 195).
However, an individual does not only conform to their own expectations and predictions, but to others predictions additionally. Educators such as teachers tend to set expectations for their students early in …show more content…
She worries that she won’t form a good first impression and no one will speak to her at the party. I predict that she will not initiate talking to other people because she has made a prediction that no one will talk to her. Self expectations can alter a social interaction to a point where there is behavioral confirmation of the belief (Snyder & Swann, 1978). My prediction is followed by Lulu dressing up to create a good first impression. Men tend to favor first impressions of females that they believed to be physically attractive, and people often assume that attractive people have more socially desirable personality traits (Snyder, Tanke, & Berscheid, Social Perception and Interpersonal Behavior: On the, 1977). If Lulu is not physically attractive enough, men might not come up to her or bother about her first
According to The Antioch Review, Self-fulfilling prophecy is how people respond to a certain situation and what that situation means for the individual. Once the individual has a meaning to the current situation at hand, they begin to mold their behaviour to fit the consequences of the predicted situation (Merton, 1948). The Antioch Review continues with an example of a self-fulfilling prophecy, “Convinced that he is destined to fail, the anxious student devotes more time to worry than to study and then turns in a poor examination” (Merton, 1948, p. 195).
However, an individual does not only conform to their own expectations and predictions, but to others predictions additionally. Educators such as teachers tend to set expectations for their students early in …show more content…
She worries that she won’t form a good first impression and no one will speak to her at the party. I predict that she will not initiate talking to other people because she has made a prediction that no one will talk to her. Self expectations can alter a social interaction to a point where there is behavioral confirmation of the belief (Snyder & Swann, 1978). My prediction is followed by Lulu dressing up to create a good first impression. Men tend to favor first impressions of females that they believed to be physically attractive, and people often assume that attractive people have more socially desirable personality traits (Snyder, Tanke, & Berscheid, Social Perception and Interpersonal Behavior: On the, 1977). If Lulu is not physically attractive enough, men might not come up to her or bother about her first