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...

Asking people to predict whether they will perform a target action often increases the probability of their performing that action. This article reviews published and unpublished research evidence for this “self-prophecy” phenomenon and reports 2 new experiments. The studies reviewed demonstrate that the self-prophecy effect occurs in a variety of situations and that it is a moderate-size effec...

Computer Self-Efficacy (CSE) has been traditionally viewed within the IS discipline as an important factor contributing to enhancements in computer-related task performance. Despite these acknowledgements, however, the empirical results involving the effect of CSE on performance have not always been consistent. Further, increasing an individual’s CSE is also a cumbersome process from a practica...

A comprehensive presentation of simulation techniques is given in terms of a simple (un-timed) automaton model. In particular, we discuss (1) reenements, (2) forward and backward simulations, (3) forward-backward and backward-forward simulations, and (4) history and prophecy relations. History and prophecy relations are new and are abstractions of the history and prophecy variables of Abadi and...

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) replication has enjoyed a series of performance improvements, but remains costly due to its replicated work. We eliminate this cost for read-mostly workloads through Prophecy, a system that interposes itself between clients and any replicated service. At Prophecy’s core is a trusted sketcher component, designed to extend the semi-trusted load balancer that mediate...

Asking people to predict whether they will undertake a target behavior increases their probability of performing that behavior. Now referred to as the self-prophecy effect, this phenomenon has been demonstrated across several contexts. Although theoretical explanations for the effect have been offered, empirical evidence for proposed accounts is sparse. The current research tests the theoretica...

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...

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...

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...