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  2. Pygmalion effect - Wikipedia

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    Rosenthal and Jacobson held that high expectations lead to better performance and low expectations lead to worse, [3] both effects leading to self-fulfilling prophecy. According to the Pygmalion effect, the targets of the expectations internalize their positive labels, and those with positive labels succeed accordingly; a similar process works ...

  3. Pygmalion in the Classroom - Wikipedia

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    Pygmalion in the Classroom is a 1968 book by Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson about the effects of teacher expectation on first and second grade student performance. [1] The idea conveyed in the book is that if teachers' expectations about student ability are manipulated early, those expectations will carry over to affect teacher behavior ...

  4. Lenore Jacobson - Wikipedia

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    After they had started to correspond, Jacobson offered Rosenthal her assistance and they agreed to collaborate on a study at her school. The experimental design for this research was finalised when Rosenthal went to San Francisco to meet Jacobson for the first time in 1964. They published their findings in Psychological Reports, 1966, vol. 19.

  5. Labeling theory - Wikipedia

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    Labeling theory was developed by sociologists during the 1960s. Howard Saul Becker's book Outsiders was extremely influential in the development of this theory and its rise to popularity. Labeling theory is also connected to other fields besides crime. For instance there is the labeling theory that corresponds to homosexuality. Alfred Kinsey ...

  6. Environmental Health

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    Background Chlorine and caustic soda are produced at chlor-alkali plants using mercury cells or the increasingly popular membrane technology that is mercury free and more energy-

  7. Robert Rosenthal (psychologist) - Wikipedia

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    Robert Rosenthal (March 2, 1933 – January 5, 2024) was a German-born American psychologist who was a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. His interests included self-fulfilling prophecies , which he explored in a well-known study of the Pygmalion effect : the effect of teachers' expectations on ...

  8. Label (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Labeling theory is a sociological theory that claims labels have a profound impact on individuals. Labeling theory is closely connected with criminology, and examines conceptualizations of deviance. While labeling theory is not singularly focused on the study of crime, it uses "deviance" and "the criminal" to explain the effect of labels. [2]

  9. Golem effect - Wikipedia

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    The effect is named after the golem, a clay creature that was given life by Rabbi Loew of Prague in Jewish mythology.According to the legend, the golem was originally created to protect the Jews of Prague from the horrors of Blood Libel; [1] however, over time, the golem grew more and more corrupt to the point of spiraling violently out of control and had to be destroyed.