Self-fulfilling prophecy

Our assumptions create a framework of expecfafions, which can lead fo self-fulfilling prophecies. .. The adage Tiehaviour breeds behaviour is nowhere more valid than in dealing with stereot)rpes. 

Stanley Shostak We re not engaging in self-fulfilling prophecies but in new ways of non-linear thinking. 

Beliefs about other people can also be difficult to validate. An element of self-fulfilling prophecy can be at work. If you perceive someone else as, for example untrustworthy, that perception is likely to be reciprocated in the way he or she relates back to you. You are thus confirmed in your original beliefs, or at least you get no evidence to disconfirm them. 

The problem with these myths is that they are often believed by the elderly themselves. As a result, older people adopt a negative view of their own sexual feelings, desires, and fantasies. The myth of sexless older years held by young people becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when they reach old age. As a result, many elderly people are overwhelmed with guilt and shame when they have sexual desires. 

Kenneth A. Pickar, California Institute of Technology Let me just throw another stone on this one, too. Gordon Moore, who predicted that data density would double every 18 months, would be the first to tell you it was not a stroke of genius on his part. Things like the road map are a self-fulfilling prophecy. Creativity may have been stifled, but maybe if you look at how the business has expanded, it s hard to see how it could have been done any better. 

Here, we introduce the convention of denoting the solvent by a suffix, and the solute by a superscript index. Hence, ss stands for the dielectric constant of the solvent S, and Qlon is the total charge of the ion. Surely, Born was aware that this is a crude approximation, but his formula led to a qualitative understanding of the experimentally observed values of solvation energies. Indeed, it was later used to define ionic radii Rlon, and thus it became in some way a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

As we have seen, the single biggest practical problem that the CWC challenge inspection system has faced is the fact that the system has never been utilized and that there is no shared view about how to deal with the situation. To construct a remedial mechanism to overcome the difficulty on the basis of these facts might run the risk of a self-fulfilling prophecy , whereby the non-use of the system could firmly establish itself. Nevertheless, a new solution should be contemplated based on the above facts in order to get over the current impasse. 

The other thing executives with an eye on avoiding risk are persuaded by is the apparent greater success with the drugs that are followers or me toos aimed at a validated target. Somebody—in extreme examples the company itself— has a clinically efficacious molecule, and the company tries to make a little bit better one. Of course, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy if all your efforts are only on noniimovative projects. The industry has only a few, often frustrated, pioneers. ... 

However, if the current attitudes persist and most scientists are not educated in the peptide sciences, and do not know how to design, synthesize, and evaluate peptides and peptidomimetics with desirable chemical and biological properties, the current ignorance and prejudice will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Considering that Emil Fisher, perhaps the greatest organic chemist, was the father of peptide and protein chemistry, and that two peptide hormones, insulin and oxyto-... 

Conversely, parents who reward effort as well as outcome (because they believe without striving there can be no accomplishment) can encourage the child to think of himself or herself as persistent. Feeling determined, the child keeps trying in the face of adversity, thereby reinforcing the image of tenacity that he or she feels proud to claim. What parental attention reflects to their child about their child has some power of self-fulfilling prophecy for their child. 

In order to predict which structure type is actually found, one often reads (see Section 1.1) that the quotient of the cation and anion radii, Tc/ra, needs to be calculated, and the critical value is 0.732 for the change from [CsCl] to [NaCl] and 0.414 from [NaCl] to [ZnS]. Indeed, rdra is found to be 0.714 for the [NaCl] type but only if the values for six-fold coordination of Ca + and C are used. Taking, for example, the radii, the ratio is 0.789, a self-fulfilling prophecy in favor of the [CsCl] type with eight-fold coordination. Clearly, this classical criterion is unfortunately unreliable. 

There is another element in the inventory which needs to be discussed separately because it assumes a special importance in later stages. This is the implicit assumption, present in virtually every report, that what had happened was inevitably going to happen again. Few assumed that the events were transient occurrences the only questions were where the Mods and Rockers would strike next and what could be done about it. As will be suggested, these predictions played the role of the classical self-fulfilling prophecy. Unlike the case of natural disasters where the absence of predictions can be disastrous, with social phenomena such as deviance, it is the presence of predictions that can be disastrous . 

Besides conforming to self-fulfilling prophecies, such statements illustrate Becker s point about the imique dilemma of the moral entrepreneur who has to defend the success of his methods and at the same time contend that the problem is getting worse. ... 

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