Simply holding positive expectations about someone’s performance and truly believing in their capabilities can subtly but powerfully affect their behavior—leading to positive outcomes. This is what is ...

Poor Professor Henry Higgins. Whatever would he make of a world where the Queen’s English has come undone by emojis, acronyms and the scourge that is uptalk? Still, George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” ...

A new study from the Center for American Progress concludes that teachers’ expectations for their students are strongly correlated with students’ graduation rates. Unfortunately, the study also says ...

This empirically-proven effect lies at the core of popular online trends like manifestation and ‘delulu is the solulu.’ Imagine someone telling you they know you are going to succeed before you even ...

“High expectations” is the mantra of today’s school reformers, who are convinced that the trouble with public education is that students have been allowed to slide by with little effort. Their version ...

Linda: The myth of Pygmalion is told in Ovid's Metaphorphoses. Pygmalion was a gifted young sculptor in Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had carved. Pygmalion had strong misgivings about women ...