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The Pygmalion Effect: How Expectations Influence Performance
TLDR The Pygmalion effect, a self-fulfilling prophecy, demonstrates that high expectations from teachers can lead to improved student performance. Studies have shown that creating a warm emotional environment, giving challenging assignments, and providing detailed feedback can greatly influence student productivity.
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The Pygmalion effect is a self-fulfilling prophecy where high expectations for a student or employee can lead to better performance.
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In the 1960s, researchers conducted an experiment with rats in mazes and found that the rats labeled as "maize bright" performed better than the rats labeled as "maize dull," leading to the conclusion that the researchers' expectations and encouragement played a role in the rats' performance.
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In an experiment conducted at Spruce School in San Francisco, researchers found that students who were labeled as "bloomers" or "growth spurters" by their teachers actually showed significant academic improvement over the course of eight months to two years, demonstrating the self-fulfilling prophecy effect.
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The study titled "Pygmalion in the Classroom" was published as a book and gained widespread attention in popular culture, with media outlets like The New York Times covering the story.
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The study on the Pygmalion Effect gained widespread attention in popular culture and the press, with headlines proclaiming that the way we teach our kids is wrong, but there were criticisms from other psychologists and flaws in the statistical analysis.
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The study on the Pygmalion Effect had flaws in its methodology, including not including raw data and using a test that was not suitable for the IQ levels of the students, leading to criticisms from other psychologists and doubts about the validity of the results.
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Over time, more studies with better methodology and execution were conducted, confirming that the Pygmalion effect is real to some degree, leading to debates about the impact of low expectations on students and the need for equal opportunities in education.
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The Pygmalion effect has been confirmed by numerous studies, which have shown that teacher expectations can greatly influence student performance and productivity, even in non-academic settings such as the workplace.
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Teachers can influence student performance by creating a warm emotional environment, giving tougher assignments, allowing more engagement with the material, and providing detailed feedback.
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Teachers have biases and prejudices that can affect how they treat and favor certain students, but it is important for teachers to know all of their students equally well and create a warm and caring environment for all students, while also allowing students to set their own learning goals and praising their effort rather than accuracy.
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The Pygmalion effect has two related effects: the golem effect, which occurs when low expectations lead to lower performance, and the Gallatea effect, which occurs when our own expectations for ourselves impact our performance.
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