Most everyone is familiar with The Pygmalion Effect, right?  This familiarity can come from the scientific studies of Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson during the late 1960’s or the 1911 psychological study of Clever Hans, a horse that was thought to be able to read, spell and do arithmetic.

Some of our lessons in The Pygmalion Effect may even date back to studies of ancient Greece.  In Greek mythology a legend exists that Pygmalion, the King of Cyprus, carved an ivory stature of what he considered to be the ideal woman.  Galatea, this ideal woman, was brought to life from statue form through the sheer strength of Pygmalion’s love for her and his own will.  This “will” has since become known as the Power of Expectations.   Continue reading ‘The Pygmalion Effect: The Impact of Expectations’ »

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