Discussion Post: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
A good friend of yours has just met someone she thinks you would really like; she claims you and this new person have much in common and wants to arrange a lunch meeting. Because you trust your friend's judgment, you agree to lunch. How might your lunch meeting unfold?
For this Discussion, you will analyze the effect of self-fulfilling prophecies on education, careers, and relationships.
To Prepare
a) Think of a time when you expected a new acquaintance to act a particular way.
b) Review the Learning Resources for this week and consider how self-fulfilling prophecies could affect your own education, career, and relationships.
Post a description of how your expectations might influence your behavior toward a new acquaintance. Explain whether a self-fulfilling prophecy made it more likely the new acquaintance would be just the kind of person you had expected him or her to be. Explain the implications of the self-fulfilling prophecy for your own education, career(s), and relationships.
Text Book: Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Akert, R. M., & Sommers, S. R. (Eds.). (2019). Social psychology (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
o Chapter 3, "Social Cognition: How We Think About the Social World".