You Better Change Your Expectations Because I Will Not Change (Much) to Fit Your Expectations
You Better Change Your Expectations Because I Will Not Change (Much) to Fit Your Expectations
Self-Verification as a Limit to Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Self-verification constitutes one reason self-fulfilling prophecies are generally not very powerful. Self-verification refers to the idea that people are often highly motivated to see themselves in a manner consistent with their own long-standing and deep-seated self-views. A strong self-concept, it seems, constitutes the psychological rudder that assists people in finding their own way through the potentially stormy seas of others’ expectations. This chapter reviews the research that has often pitted self-verification against self-fulfilling prophecy—research that often shows that strong motivations to self-verify seem to greatly reduce self-fulfilling prophecies and self-verification is often at least as strong or stronger than self-fulfilling prophecy. Self-verification clearly constitutes one social psychological process that serves to limit the power of self-fulfilling prophecies and expectancy-confirming biases.
Keywords: self-verification, self-fulfilling prophecies, interpersonal expectancies
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