Attitude attribution

prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior

tendency for people to under-emphasize situational explanations for an individual's observed behavior while over-emphasizing dispositional and personality-based explanations

situation in which a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but incorrectly assume that most others accept it, and therefore go along with it

phenomenon of low expectations of an individual and their effects in educational and organizational settings

a cognitive bias that refers to the systematic errors made when people evaluate their own and others' behaviors

a prediction that prevents what it predicts from happening

psychological theory