In search of the powerful self-fulfilling prophecy.

Cost Benefit Analysis of Higher Education by Educated Women in Iran: The Tale of Self Fulfilling Prophecy and Low Labor Force Participation

Self-efficacy as a moderator of negative and positive self-fulfilling prophecy effects: mothers' beliefs and children's alcohol use

This research examined two issues relevant to self-fulfilling prophecies. First, it examined whether children’s risk for alcohol use, as indicated by their self-efficacy to refuse alcohol from peers, moderated their susceptibility to negative and positive self-fulfilling prophecy effects created by their mothers. Second, it explored behavioral mediators that could be involved in the self-fulfil...

The Face as a Determining Factor for Successful Social Manipulation: Relational Aggression, Sociometric Status, and Facial Appearance

Appearance has been shown to affect the way humans behave, specifically through the self-fulfilling prophecy effect. The purpose of this study was to find a link among sociometric status, relational aggression and facial structure. A sample of seventh and eleventh grade participants assessed their peers for dominance, popularity, relational aggression and prosocial behavior. College participant...

You Are What You Wear: An Interactive Demonstration of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

This article presents evidence in support of an interactive classroom activity that demonstrates the self-fulfilling prophecy. After a brief description of the topic, 5 volunteers from an introductory psychology course of 81 students blindly donned one of several labeled hats (i.e., intelligent, attractive, good leader, annoying, lazy). The instructor told volunteers to treat each other in acco...

Information Acquisition , Coordination , and Fundamentals in a Financial Crisis ∗

This paper reconciles the two explanations of a financial crisis, the self-fulfilling prophecy and the fundamental causes, in an empirically-relevant framework, by explicitly modeling the costly voluntary acquisition of information about fundamentals in a variant of Diamond and Dybvig (1983). In the “run” equilibrium investors engage in costly evaluation of projects, so that banks with lower-re...