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The expectation effect, with David Robson
Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes
A Study on Self Affirmation in Schools
The expectation effect is often called the pigmaelian effect after George Bernard Schor's play Pigmaelian. The idea here was that our teachers are shaping the way that kids kind of blossom in schools. If a teacher has really negative expectations of a kid they just assume they're not very bright. They transmit those expectations to those kids who then internalised their, they feel that they've got less kind of self efficacy and have less chances of success later in life. That becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. It can actually be detrimental to their performance in exams. But there are also kind of antidotes to this and like you mentioned one of the best ones is this process called self
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