Self-fulfilling prophecy

3. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy as a Management Tool: Harnessing Pygmalion by DOV EDEN Dov Eden in his article Self-Fulfilling Prophecy as a Management Tool: Harnessing Pygmalion published in 1988, argued that the Pygmalion effect is a form of self-fulfilling prophesy (SEP), whereby raising leaders' performance expectations for their followers improves follower performance (e.g., Rosenthal, 1993). Dove stated that managers, who expect more from their subordinates, often direct them to achieve greater result. The process of leading subordinates to achieve results, impacts positively in improving leadership and organizational outcomes and subordinate job performance (Avolio, Reichard, Hannah, Walumbwa, & Chan, 2009). In this article, Pygmalion research in military and training situations is reviewed and issues for future research and application are discussed, including how to raise expectations, which subordinates are, influenced most, positive and negative Pygmalion, and ethical concerns.…

The main focus of this experiment is the self-fulfilling prophecy. It is described as the concept that if we expect something to happen in a certain way our expectation will tend to make it so. In this study, Robert Rosenthal focuses on how self-fulfilling biases and expectancies occur in school classrooms. Rosenthal suspected that when an elementary teacher is provided with information that shows that some students are more intelligent than others, the teacher may behave in ways unknowingly…

Psy 250 Proff Gross Mohamad Zowail The Self Fulfilling Prophecy Psychology has long emphasized the power of beliefs to shape reality (Rosenthal & Jacobson, 1968). Research of the 1940s and 1950s which promoted the idea that perception is heavily influenced by people’s goals, needs, fears, and motives. The self-fulfilling prophecy, which happens subconsciously, is central to this theoretical perspective because it involves the behavioral confirmation of false beliefs (Merton, 1948). In…

known or referred to as the 'self-fulfilling prophecy.' To fully grasp the Pygmalion effect, it is important to understand the example the book gives. It describes the relationship and interaction shared between teachers and students. The book talks about the impact of teachers on their students. 'When teachers hold higher expectations of certain students (changing their behavior toward these students), these particular students responded by meeting teacher expectations.' This action committed…

According to Dr. Schweingruber’s lecture, “the self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that in itself cause the expected event to occur, thus seeming to confirm the prophecy’s accuracy.” The self-fulfilling prophecy is a funny thing. It is weird to think that if you think that something might happen, it is more likely to happen. The predictions could be both direct or indirect, or even positive or negative. For example, in class we talked about Oedipus, The man who was predicted…

Rosenthal #1 - Rosenthal and Jacobson argue that under most circumstances if students confirm teacher expectations it is difficult to know whether or not this is truly a self-fulfilling prophecy. Why, what other interpretations are there? How did they set up their study so that they could clearly tell if self-fulfilling prophecies were operating? Explain how the results confirmed this. The self-fulfilling prophecy is when the first person has expectations of a second person that leads the…

In class, after I handed in my first observation, we started talking about the self-fulfilling prophecy. The self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true due to positive feedback between belief and behavior. In other words, behavior influenced by expectations causes those expectations to be true. I believe that Johnny is a good kid, I’ve seen him get really excited about work and do well. On the other hand, I have also seen him talk back and…

The concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy is centered on the idea that if we think or expect something to happen, then those expectations will happen. This concept, while sounding superstitious, has been found to actually occur. Numerous psychological research has shown that the concept of “self-fulfilling prophecy” actually occurs. An example of this is the psychological experiment that focused on effect of expectancy and biases conducted by Robert Rosenthal (1966). In this study some of the…

The time that I created a negative self-fulfilling prophecy is when I was in first grade. I went to Kindergarten but according to my parents, I did not attend all school days and I did not really study. So when I entered first grade I was not very good in writing or reading. And I felt I was very different from the class, because all of them were really good in writing and reading. As a result, I did not do my homework because I felt that even if I did it, it will not be right. So when the tests…

Self-fulfilling prophecies, a term coined by psychologist Robert Merton, function under the idea that prophecies in of themselves have no power, but nonetheless come to pass solely due to a person’s belief in it. This phenomenon suggests that prophecies have no otherworldly or spiritual power, but are rather purely psychological. If awareness of the prophecy alone has the power to drastically change a person’s life choices, then it is the individual’s own self who is unknowingly manipulating…