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The 17 pages that link to Self-fulfilling prophecy, each with the reason it gives.

• StereotypeRelated: Expectations based on stereotypes can change treatment and elicit confirming responses.

• BeliefRelated: Beliefs can alter actions in ways that make their contents come true.

• Bank runRelated: Withdrawals prompted by fear can create the cash crisis depositors feared.

• Self-conceptRelated: Self-beliefs can influence conduct in ways that make their predictions more likely to come true.

• Stereotype threatCompared with: It is a related expectation effect, but stereotype threat concerns a target's response to a salient group stereotype.

• Robert K. MertonBroader topic: Merton traced how expectations can alter conduct and produce the outcomes they predict.

• PrejudiceRelated: Prejudiced expectations can alter treatment in ways that help produce expected outcomes.

• Barnum effectRelated: A personality claim may influence self-understanding and behavior, extending beyond the initial impression.

• Gender stereotypesRelated: Expectations about gender can alter treatment in ways that encourage stereotype-consistent behavior.

• Social stigmaRelated: Stigmatizing expectations can shape treatment in ways that help produce the outcomes they presume.

• Labeling theoryRelated: Expectations attached to a deviant label can contribute to behavior that appears to confirm it.

• Matthew effectCompared with: Teacher expectations can shape achievement through social responses, unlike the effect's broader skill-and-practice loop.

• Positive thinkingRelated: Optimistic expectations can alter behavior in ways that sometimes help produce favorable outcomes.

• Observer-expectancy effectRelated: Observer expectations can become consequential when they alter treatment or interaction.

• Thomas theoremRelated: It captures the theorem’s clearest feedback loop: belief changes behavior, which produces confirming evidence.

• Pygmalion effectNarrower topic: The Pygmalion effect is a specific self-fulfilling prophecy driven by one person’s expectations of another.

• Jeane DixonCompared with: Dixon’s predictions claimed to foresee events, rather than bring them about through changed behavior.