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Jussim, Lee – Psychological Review, 1986
This article reviews self-fulfilling prophecies in three sequential stages: (1) teachers develop expectations, (2) teachers treat students differently depending on expectations, and (3) students react to treatment in expectancy-confirming ways. The focus is on social and psychological events at each stage, causal processes linking stages, and…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation