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Episode: What's the Pygmalion Effect? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

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Pygmalion in the classroom

by Robert Rosenthal, Lenore Jacobson

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"So they published a study in 1968 called Pygmalion in the Classroom, and again they named it after Pygmalion because in that story from Ovid, the sculptor Pygmalion sculpts a beautiful woman, falls in love with her, and loves the statue so much that the goddess Venus says, "I'm going to make you a real-life person.""
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Pygmalion in the classroom

by Robert Rosenthal, Lenore Jacobson

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"All right, so where we left off, the study was called Pygmalion in the Classroom published in '68 as the paper and then also notably as a full book."