self-fulfilling prophecies
Belief-caused outcomes
Self-fulfilling prophecies are predictions that cause themselves to come true.
The act of believing or declaring something will happen influences behavior in ways that make the outcome more likely: Her fear that she'd fail the interview made her so nervous that she bombed it.
The term applies in psychology, economics, and everyday life—a bank rumored to be failing may actually fail when customers rush to withdraw funds.
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
- influencePower to affect others
- beliefTrust held as true
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- outlookAttitude toward the future
doom and gloom · projection · prediction · consequence · hypothesis · mindset · law of attraction · self-sabotage · confirmation bias · placebo effect · attitudes · learned helplessness · mental block · imposter syndrome · assumption · negative reinforcement · anticipation · outcomes
self-fulfilling propheciesfate
Predetermined course of events
predestination · determinism · destiny · random events · fortune
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