What We Expect From Ourselves And Others Often Becomes Reality

The Pygmalion effect is the finding by social psychologist Robert Rosenthal “that what one person expects of another can come to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Rosenthal and his coauthor Lenore Jacobson coined the term to describe the striking results of an experiment they carried out in a California school in 1965. Do you have a pygmalion in your life??