Lenore Jacobson

And then long story short, kiss the statue, it turned into a living woman and he married it.

So Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson brought it together and called it the Pygmalion Effect, right? Because that was his expectations that it would come alive and become his future wife.

So basically Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson did a little study that made this famous and They took a handful of teachers, and I don't think they're allowed to do this anymore.

So they took a group of teachers of equal talent, equal skill, took groups of kids of equal IQ, and then they divided them up.

Basically, everything was equal, except this.

Does it make a difference whether your teacher believes that you are a high performer or a low performer, that you are a late bloomer, that even though you haven't demonstrated your intellectual ability, you will blossom? or you're not a good student or you're a good student.

Psychologist Robert Rosenthal and school principal Lenore Jacobson did a remarkable study some years ago in which they told school teachers, elementary school teachers, that on the basis of some psychological test, some of their students, some of the children in their class were designated as late bloomers.

Even though they hadn't shown any academic success, they are expected to bloom.

The amazing thing is that in a very short time, the teachers began to treat those children differently than the other kids.

Those kids began to think of themselves differently, and in the end, they actually performed significantly better than the other kids.

They were transformed by the teacher's positive expectations, the opposite of Jane Elliott's study in which teachers' negative expectations that the teacher infused led them to think of themselves as inferior.

So let's see the Pygmalion effect in action in these classrooms set up by Rosenthal and Jacobson.

Positive expectations can change a person's perception of a situation just as dramatically as negative expectations.