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self-defeating prophecy

a prediction that prevents what it predicts from happening

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perverse incentive

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Attitude attribution Causality Cognitive biases

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butterfly effect

Streisand effect

Year 2000 problem

tragedy of the commons

self-fulfilling prophecy

Parkinson's law

Hawthorne effect

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Robert K. Merton

tragedy of the commons

risk compensation

Year 2000 problem

unintended consequences

Prevention paradox

butterfly effect

failure mode and effects analysis

perverse incentive

Abilene paradox

self-refuting idea

self-fulfilling prophecy

tyranny of small decisions

Streisand effect