We link senior banks loan officers’ responses regarding their decisions for bank credit standards, from successive surveys the European Bank Lending Survey to investigate two important issues. First, we examine relationship between standards (CS) and perceived actual financial crisis. Second, whether notion of self-fulfilling prophecy is applicable in case 2008 In particular, second main resear...

Adolescents' negative social expectations of their peers were examined as long-term predictors of problematic self-reported social functioning. Early adolescent negative expectations were hypothesized to predict risk-averse functioning in late adolescence that would ultimately contribute to confirmation of those expectations. Utilizing observational data and friend- and self-reports from a comm...

“Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” or Recognition Requires a Concept of Perception To the Editor: The NINDS rt-PA Stroke Trial did not prospectively assess quantity and quality of ischemic brain parenchyma as detected by baseline CT.1 In this trial, no CT reading panel graded CT scans on the basis of predefined definitions. Now the trialists hypothesized that there would be disagreement among them abou...

This research examined moderators of naturally occurring self-fulfilling prophecies. The authors assessed whether positive or negative self-fulfilling prophecies were more powerful and whether some targets were more susceptible to self-fulfilling prophecies because of their self-concepts in a particular achievement domain and previous academic records. Participants were 98 teachers and 1,539 st...

“Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” or Recognition Requires a Concept of Perception To the Editor: The NINDS rt-PA Stroke Trial did not prospectively assess quantity and quality of ischemic brain parenchyma as detected by baseline CT.1 In this trial, no CT reading panel graded CT scans on the basis of predefined definitions. Now the trialists hypothesized that there would be disagreement among them abou...