This research examined whether self-fulfilling prophecy effects accumulated, dissipated, or remained stable over time in terms of 2 complementary conceptual models. Analyses of longitudinal data from 2 samples of mother-child dyads (N(1) = 487; N(2) = 288) yielded 3 main findings. First, the degree to which mothers' inaccurate beliefs assessed at a single point in time predicted children's dist...

TO THE EDITOR: With great interest we read the article by Lebech et al. (1) on diagnostic imaging in patients with non‐specific symptoms or signs of cancer, and commend the authors for using a randomized controlled design to compare positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with CT imaging. However, the study appears to have examined a self‐fulfilling prophecy, because PET/CT wa...

This research examined whether self-verification acts as a general mediational process of self-fulfilling prophecies. The authors tested this hypothesis by examining whether self-verification processes mediated self-fulfilling prophecy effects within a different context and with a different belief and a different outcome than has been used in prior research. Results of longitudinal data obtaine...

Organizational scholars have recently argued that economic theories and assumptions have adversely shaped management practice and human behavior, leading not only to the incorporation of trust-eroding market-mechanisms into organizations but also unnecessarily creating self-interested behavior. A number of highly influential papers have argued that the self-fulfilling nature of (even false) the...

“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 work proposes a double auction artificial stock market based on the Santa Fe market structure. Our market tries to shed light on some facts that usually arise in real stock markets, specially the creation of technical figures in price series. The origin of these figures is believed to be caused by the self-fulfilling prophecy effect, which will be investigated with the proposed market.

wonder whether adopting a rimland containment strategy would likely turn those fears into a self-fulfilling prophecy. As George Kennan, the so-called father of containment, wrote in 1947, “It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound ev...

OBJECTIVES There are many stereotypes about ageing and later life. We looked at the association between expectations and stereotyping of loneliness in old age and actual self-reported loneliness status 8 years later in English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). METHOD Data from 4465 ELSA core members aged over 50 who responded to Waves 2 (2004) did not report loneliness in Wave 2, and respo...

“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...