Have you ever noticed how expecting failure often makes things worse? Or have you ever walked into a situation brimming with confidence—even though the odds were stacked against you—and then succeeded ...

We are all prophets who fall victim to our own self-fulfilling prophecies. The idea of a self-fulfilling prophecy, in which the prophecy becomes true due to the belief in the prophecy, has littered ...

A self-fulfilling prophecy is a process by which expectations elicit behaviors that ultimately confirm those expectations. For instance, many psychologists discuss how stock market trading can be ...

Do you ever wake up and everything seems to go wrong? You drop your toothbrush with the toothpaste on it, shampoo gets in your eye, and you top it off with spilling your cup of coffee. You proclaim ...