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People perform better because you expect them to.
Higher performance expectations lead to improved outcomes for the individuals being observed.
In a 1968 study, teachers were told some students had high potential; those students showed greater intellectual growth, not because they were smarter, but because the teachers treated them differently. Your expectations become their reality.
Your view of others is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Rosenthal and Jacobson, 1968
- What the check found
- The Pygmalion Effect is a well-known psychological concept based on the cited study, though the scientific robustness of the original 1968 results is frequently debated due to replication issues.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.