Pygmalion effect

phenomenon whereby others’ expectations of a target person affect the target person’s performance
Event psychological_experiment Q855150
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Pygmalion effect

Summary

Pygmalion effect is a psychological experiment[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of psychological_experiment entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (739 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pygmalion effect's instance of is recorded as psychological experiment[3].
  • Pygmalion effect's instance of is recorded as cognitive bias[4].
  • Pygmalion is named after Pygmalion effect[5].
  • Pygmalion effect's GND ID is recorded as 4176430-4[6].
  • Pygmalion effect's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[7].
  • Pygmalion effect's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02nb_3[8].
  • Pygmalion effect's different from is recorded as Rosenhan experiment[9].
  • Pygmalion effect's different from is recorded as Q115776937[10].
  • Pygmalion effect's Quora topic ID is recorded as Pygmalion-Effect[11].
  • Pygmalion effect's Cultureel Woordenboek ID is recorded as psychologie-en-sociologie/pygmalion-effect[12].
  • Pygmalion effect's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as pygmalion-effect[13].
  • Pygmalion effect's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 8018886[14].
  • Pygmalion effect's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 51982[15].

Why It Matters

Pygmalion effect ranks in the top 7% of psychological_experiment entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (739 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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