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The Power of Expectations

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How powerful are expectations? Very. We feed on the expectations of others. Consider this example: The tendency to see in others what we've been led to expect takes its name from Shaw's play [Pygmalion]. Called the Pygmalion effect, it's nicely suited to controlled experiments. In one of the best-known experimental investigations of the Pygmalion effect, Robert Rosenthal … [Read more...] about The Power of Expectations

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