In psychology, there was once a famous experiment. was called the Rosenthal experiment, which was later called " Pygmalion effect " or "interpersonal expectation effect".
1968, famous American psychologists Rosenthal and Jacobson came to an elementary school. With the help of the examination invigilator, students from grades one to fifth grades underwent an IQ test at the beginning of the school year, but the students did not know that this was an IQ test. The teacher was not aware of the results of the test, and only Rosenthal and Jacobson knew the students' IQ test results.
Then they randomly selected 20% of the students as students with bright futures and handed the list with these students' names to the teacher. They also specifically instructed the teacher to keep the list confidential so as not to affect the experimental results. The teacher also cooperated very well. At the end of the school year, all students underwent the same IQ test as at the beginning of the year.
The result miracle happened. All students on the list made great progress in their grades, and were lively and cheerful, confident, had a strong desire for knowledge, and were more willing to deal with others.
Why did Rosenthal conduct such an experiment? This is because he wants to prove how the teacher’s expectations will affect the students. Before conducting this experiment, Rosenthal did a lot of research on "how others' expectations will affect" and speculated that "reality will be swayed by others' hopes", which means that individual behavior and the expectations placed will be consistent.
The results of this campus experiment were just as Rosenthal expected. The IQ test scores of those students on the list improved significantly compared with the first time, while those students not on the list did not undergo similar significant changes.
What does Rosenthal's experiment show? This involves the role of "hint". Because the teacher received hinted by the experimenter, he not only had higher expectations for the students on the list, but also intentionally or unintentionally passed on the implicit expectations to these students through attitudes, expressions, understanding and giving more praise.
students give teachers positive feedback; this feedback arouses teachers' greater enthusiasm for education, maintains their original expectations, and gives more care to these students. This cycle is so repeated that these students' intelligence, academic performance and social behavior move closer to the teacher's expectations, making expectations a reality.
Self-fulfilling prophecy, that's how it comes about. If a person can give himself positive hints, it will play an encouragement and promotion role, prompting individuals to dare to make breakthroughs and make progress.
However, on the other hand, self-fulfilling prophecy is also a schema thinking process for people to think about their self-cognition. Everyone's cognition will determine his future and changes in behavior.
In life, we often encounter this phenomenon. When encountering the same setbacks and difficulties, some people will say, "My fate is up to me, not to God." They are willing to face any difficult situation; while some people will say, "Oh! This is fate, let's do it." The same scene triggers different psychological activities of a person.
Character determines destiny and also reveals the psychological process of self-fulfilling prophecy. If you believe in yourself, don’t regard prophecies as your own rules and regulations, and can realize that such ideas are unreasonable and dare to break through, then you will be successful;
On the contrary, if you accept your fate too much and face things negatively, things will definitely move forward like your expectations, towards the road of failure. I think I am a failure and I can’t face it, so I won’t take action; if you don’t take action, the inevitable result is failure.
For example, if you refer to the college entrance examination, if you are afraid of the difficulty of the exam and do not take the exam, you will not be able to get into the university 100%; but if you take the exam, you may not be able to get into the university. If you work hard, you may have hope of getting into the university.
After all, self-realization is a cage of human thinking. Only when you break through the limitations of thinking and cognition and dare to act can you eliminate the impact of hints on you.
