This is the Jockel Underground Podcast. Number 61 sitting here with Echo Charles.

And the last one we talked about how your name or the name you give people or the nickname you give people

or the name you give a team might impact the way that they act and what they do in their life.

Similar thing here that pigmailian effect.

This is a psychological phenomenon where high expectations of someone

led to their improved performance. Conversely, low expectations lead to worse performance.

This is from something called Academy4SC.org. It's an educational website.

This is where I stoke this information, stole this information, stole these quotes from, but that's who it is.

So I'm citing them, citing their reference so we can talk about.

The name pigmailian refers to a Greek myth about a talented sculptor as the story goes.

Pigmailian fell in love with one of his creations and I've restatue of a woman.

Thanks to some divine intervention, the statue came to life and later married her.

His expectations became his reality. So that's the key point there.

Expectations become reality. The pigmailian effect was first noted by psychologist Robert Rosenthal

and elementary school principal Lenore Jacobson in a 1965 study called Pigmailian in the classroom.

Researchers told teachers that a select group of their elementary school students had a high potential

for exceeding their expected academic success based on an intelligence test.

However, the results of the intelligence test were not disclosed to the teachers and the growth spurs,

as they were called, were selected at random.

Rosenthal and Jacobson predicted that teachers might subconsciously favor the students who were expected to overachieve,

perhaps by paying closer attention to their work or offering more help when they struggled with an assignment.

The study found that the randomly selected growth spurs did in fact perform better than other students,

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