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 and Lenore Jacobson administered what they called the "Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition" to students in a West … [Read more...] about The Power of Expectations