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Positive or negative expectations about circumstances, events, or people that may affect a person's behavior toward them in a manner that he or she (unknowingly) creates situations in which those expectations are fulfilled. An employer who, for example, expects the employees to be disloyal and shirkers, will likely treat them in a way that will elicit the very response he or she expects.
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self-fulfilling prophecy is in the Information & Knowledge Management subject.
self-fulfilling prophecy appears in the definition of the following term: liquidity trap
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