Galatea Effect

The Galatea effect is a self-expectancy phenomenon identified by researchers Dov Eden and Abraham Ravid as a distinct mechanism operating alongside the better known Pygmalion effect, in which a person's own expectations of their own performance, rather than a leader's or supervisor's expectations of them, drive improvements in that performance. Where the Pygmalion effect describes how a leader's raised expectations of a subordinate can raise that subordinate's own performance, the Galatea effect isolates the internal, self-directed side of the same mechanism: deliberately raising a person's own expectations of their own ability and future results tends to improve those results even when nobody else's expectations of that person have changed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/