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The Pygmalion Effect #shorts

2023-02-19 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:58 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Evidence-based framing

Ali explains the Pygmalion effect from Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson's 1968 study, in which teachers' expectations shaped students' performance, and says low expectations of ourselves make us underperform; the remedy is to believe in our own abilities and, above all, to spend time with people who believe in us.

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00:00:00 — The Pygmalion effect and how to take control of it

  • ★★ Ali says Harvard psychologist Robert Rosenthal found the Pygmalion effect in 1968 in a study with school principal Lenore Jacobson: students of whom teachers expected more performed better, and those of whom they expected less did worse. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ The Pygmalion effect reaches beyond the classroom, Ali says: expectations influence behaviour at work, at home and in ourselves, and low expectations of our own abilities can make us underperform. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ To take control of the Pygmalion effect, Ali's first step is to shift our mindset to believe in our own abilities. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Ali's second, arguably more important step against the Pygmalion effect is to surround ourselves with people who believe in us and want us to succeed, because time with people with low expectations and low standards can be really damaging. — 00:00:29

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Central: Pygmalion effect

Also: Harvard University · Lenore Jacobson · Robert Rosenthal

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