Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-02-08
Books mentioned on What's the Pygmalion Effect?
Do teachers and managers give special treatment to those who they're told have great academic or professional promise? Does this create a self-fulfilling prophecy, regardless of the truth?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Pygmalion in the classroom
Pygmalion in the Classroom by Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson is a famous 1968 study and subsequent book examining how interpersonal expectations influence performance, known as the Pygmalion effect.
Discussed“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.”
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