Rosenthal effect, also known as "pygmalion effect" and "interpersonal expectation effect", is a kind of social psychological effect, which refers to the phenomenon that teachers' ardent hope for students can get the expected effect dramatically.

The experimenter thinks that the teacher should receive the hint from the experimenter, not only have higher expectations for the students on the list, but also convey the implicit expectations to these students through attitude, expression, understanding and giving more questions, guidance and praise, and the students will give the teacher positive feedback; This kind of feedback has aroused teachers' greater enthusiasm for education, maintained their original expectations, and paid more attention to these students.

This cycle is repeated, so that these students' intelligence, academic performance and social behavior move closer to the teacher's expectation, making the expectation become a reality.

Rosenthal

Psychologist Rosenthal, full name Robert Rosenthal.

The main achievement is the Rosenthal experiment and the discovery of the famous Rosenthal effect, also known as pygmalion effect.

Pygmalion effect was named after a sculptor named Pygmalion in a Greek fairy tale. He fell in love with the statue of the goddess he carved out of ivory. Because he spoke to the statue every day, the statue of the goddess finally became a real goddess. Pygmalion effect is a self-fulfilling prophecy development.

From this point of view, people who often have negative expectations will fail; And people who often have positive expectations in their hearts will succeed. In sociology, this effect is often cited as related to education or social class.

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Rosenthal Effect-Baidu Encyclopedia

Rosenthal (American psychologist)-Baidu Encyclopedia

Pygmalion effect-Wikipedia