Victor I. Stoichita, The Pygmalion Effect: From Ovid to Hitchcock (Translated by Alison Anderson), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, coll. "The Louise Smith Bross Lectures", 2008. viii, 252 ...

This is where the Pygmalion effect comes in—at its core, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. When high expectations are placed on someone, they begin to internalize those beliefs and the ...