Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
A good friend of yours has just met someone she thinks you would really like; she claims you and this new person have much in common and wants to arrange a lunch meeting. Because you trust your friend’s judgment, you agree to lunch. How might your lunch meeting unfold?
For this Discussion, you will analyze the effect of self-fulfilling prophecies on education, careers, and relationships.
Think of a time when you expected a new acquaintance to act a particular way.
Review the Learning Resources for this week and consider how self-fulfilling prophecies could affect your own education, career, and relationships.
Post a description of how your expectations might influence your behavior toward a new acquaintance. Explain whether self-fulfilling prophecy made it more likely the new acquaintance would be just the kind of person you had expected him or her to be. Explain the implications of the self-fulfilling prophecy for your own education, career(s), and relationships.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Essay
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Based on the information provided by a good friend of mine, there is tremendous potential for similarity, both real and perceived (that is, the extent to which my new acquaintance and I are objectively identical, as evaluated by the provided similarity information) and across different dimensions (for example, leisure interests, traits, attitudes). Research indicates that shared attributes would likely generate a more significant liking for one another once we meet (Sprecher, 2023). I expect to like the new acquaintance due to the similarity effect, and the new friend would reciprocate the exact liking. Since I have acquired information concerning the stranger that suggests they are similar to me, I will shift my behaviors to ensure the conversion is more enjoyable and based on my personality and character (Sprecher, 2023). For example, I expect the new acquaintance to be a smart person like myself, and thus I will likely talk about analytical themes to allow them to demonstrate their intelligence.
Self-fulfilling prophecy augmented the new acquaintance's potential to be the kind of a person I expected them to be based on the social constructionism hypothesis. In this context, social beliefs about the type of person I expected to meet altered reality and shaped my behavior. The self-fulfilling prophecy influenced my expectations about the new person, thus initiating a sequence of events or behavioral changes that made the fallacious expectation true (Madon et al., 2018). Self-fulfilling prophecy influenced my education because I had higher expectations of acquiring knowledge via effective classroom interactions, which augmented my academic performance (Chandrasegaran, 2018). In the workplace, my self-concept values influence my actions toward workmates, thus influencing how they treat me based on my character. This has played a central role in reducing the potential for conflicts in the workplace as I ensure to treat others appropriately. Lastly, a self-fulfilling prophecy influences my relationships in that I model my behavior to elicit the right emotions and attitudes others have toward me, thus creating more sustainable and authentic interactions (Sprecher, 2023).
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