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Social & Emotional InfluenceMember ingredient
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
An initially inaccurate expectation can sometimes change treatment or behaviour in a way that helps produce the expected outcome; a matching outcome alone does not prove that this happened.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
Teacher Expectations and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Knowns and Unknowns, Resolved and Unresolved Controversies
Research-assisted source review
- What it supports
- Classroom self-fulfilling effects occur but are usually small, do not greatly accumulate and often dissipate; expectations commonly predict outcomes because they are partly accurate, with larger harm possible for some groups.
- Where it may not transfer
- This is a narrative critical review, not a single pooled causal estimate. Classroom findings cannot be transferred to product scoring or motivational copy without a measured treatment pathway.
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