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Self-fulfilling Prophecy in Practical and Automated Prediction
A self-fulfilling prophecy is, roughly, a prediction that brings about its own truth. Although true predictions are hard to fault, self-fulfilling...
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Lying and self-defeating prophecies
The paper disputes the common view which holds that to lie is, essentially, to assert a disbelieved proposition. It shows by reference to...
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
This chapter tackles the issue of how the terms we use in reference to young people and the contemporary age can instigate the very phenomena they...
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Self-fulfilling Prophecies in Service Design: Strategies to Address Virtuous and Vicious Circles for Mental Healthcare Transformation
The self-fulfilling prophecy can be best described as an assumption that, only because of the fact of being believed, provokes certain expectations...
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Academic Achievement Discrimination and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Schools
Using a discourse analysis perspective, I want to discuss teachers’ perceptions of their students’ academic achievement, abilities, intelligence, and...
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Reactivity in the human sciences
The reactions that science triggers on the people it studies, describes, or theorises about, can affect the science itself and its claims to...
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Discrimination and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Schools Globally
This chapter focuses on global research findings dealing with various forms of discrimination in the classroom and their impact on students’...
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On the epistemic rationality and significance of self-fulfilling beliefs
Some propositions are not likely to be true overall, but are likely to be true if you believe them. Appealing to the platitude that belief aims at...
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Robert K. Merton: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy/The Matthew Effect in Science
Die Arbeiten von Robert K. Merton (1910–2003) prägen verschiedene Teilbereiche der Soziologie. Seine Ideen sind innerhalb der Disziplin weitgehend...
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Field Experiments: Correspondence Studies
This chapter reviews the existing field experimentation literature on the prevalence of discrimination, the consequences of such discrimination, and...
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Field Experiments: Correspondence Studies
This chapter reviews the existing field experimentation literature on the prevalence of discrimination, the consequences of such discrimination, and...
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Deviance and Labelling
This chapter explores the social construction of deviance as, once social rules deemed necessary for group survival are broken, categorisation...
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Gender and minority background as moderators of teacher expectation effects on self-concept, subjective task values, and academic performance
Two developments in teacher expectation research formed the basis for the current study. First, researchers have begun investigating the...
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Pygmalion in the genes? On the potentially negative impacts of polygenic scores for educational attainment
Polygenic scores for educational attainment and related variables, such as IQ and “mathematical ability” are now readily available via...
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Conclusion
Understanding the general work motivation of older employees and specifically their learning motivation and influencing factors is an important topic...
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Management of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: an update for the intensivist
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains one of the most fatal and debilitating conditions in the world. Current clinical management in severe TBI...
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Guidelines for Neuroprognostication in Critically Ill Adults with Intracerebral Hemorrhage
BackgroundThe objective of this document is to provide recommendations on the formal reliability of major clinical predictors often associated with...
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Subtle discrimination: do stereotypes among teachers trigger bias in their expectations and widen ethnic achievement gaps?
Ethnic and racial disparities in educational outcomes, such as test scores, are a core issue of educational research. While the role of student and...
