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Perceptions versus interpretations, and domains for self-fulfilling prophesies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2017

Jennifer Church*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604. church@vassar.eduhttp://faculty.vassar.edu/church/

Abstract

I suggest two ways in which Jussim's extensive discussion (in his 2012 book) could be enriched: first, by exploring the distinction between perceptual judgments and interpretive judgments; second, by considering the power of expectations to be self-fulfilling in the case of young children and the case of fragile egos.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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References

Jussim, L. (2012) Social perception and social reality: Why accuracy dominates bias and self-fulfilling prophecy. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar