INTRODUCTION Walking speed is a meaningful marker of physical function in the aging population. While it is a primarily physical measure, experimental studies have shown that merely priming older adults with negative stereotypes about aging results in immediate declines in objective walking speed. What is not clear is whether this is a temporary experimental effect or whether negative aging ste...

Social Perception and Social Reality (Jussim 2012) reviews the evidence in social psychology and related fields and reaches three conclusions: (1) Although errors, biases, and self-fulfilling prophecies in person perception are real, reliable, and occasionally quite powerful, on average, they tend to be weak, fragile, and fleeting. (2) Perceptions of individuals and groups tend to be at least m...

We read with interest the paper by Gürleyik et al. [1] and the subsequent letter by Brestas and Dafni regarding the use of ROC curve analysis [2]. We fully agree with Dr. Brestas that ROC curve analysis should be used to report the true discriminative power of a test, and are impressed by the performance of the CT severity index in predicting severe disease which was reported in reply to this l...

The authors hypothesized a self-fulfilling prophecy wherein rejection expectancies lead people to behave in ways that elicit rejection from their dating partners. The hypothesis was tested in 2 studies of conflict in couples: (a) a longitudinal field study where couples provided daily-diary reports and (b) a lab study involving behavioral observations. Results from the field study showed that h...

Even when American decision-makers were denying it, ordinary Iraqis in the neighborhoods of Baghdad fearfully anticipated the dangerous consequences of the U.S.-led invasion. We use two unique Iraq datasets to analyze the self-fulfilling neighborhood specific forces set loose following the U.S.-led invasion. Sectarian criminal violence by Shia militia disproportionately forced Sunni residents f...

Undergraduate design students at London College of Communication were interviewed about the relationship between their writing practice and practice. Gardner’s theory multiple intelligences (1983) framed study. This article takes position that polarizing linguistic (textual) bodily kinaesthetic (visual) forms intelligence itself becomes a barrier to arts students’ epistemological development. T...

System dynamics has been enriched from many disciplines. This paper describes our effort to discover generic structures in the field of social psychology. Social psychologists have accumulated a body of empirical studies and theories that are reproducible and apply to a variety of social situations. Our task was to start modeling a few pivotal dynamic effects found in the social psychology lite...

OBJECTIVES Withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy may lead to premature limitations of life-saving treatments among patients with intracranial hemorrhage, representing a self-fulfilling prophecy. We aimed to determine whether our algorithm for the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy decision would accurately identify patients with a high probability of poor outcome, despite aggressive treatmen...