0 a situation in which something happens because you expected or said it would happen: --
Sales predictions determine how a book is published, and a prediction of poor sales is often a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Information, or misinformation, from anonymous sources must be consigned to the dustbin lest it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, which is always a danger.
The research became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The idea that realism is a self-fulfilling prophecy is consistent with a growing constructivist literature asserting that agents and the structures they inhabit are mutually constituted.
It's more like a self-fulfilling prophecy!
If lower expectations result in actually meeting fewer people and receiving less support from others, and thus serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy, feelings of social loneliness may be stronger.
As such, however shortlived its influence on others during 1917, for the party at least, the ' franchise factor ' seems to have functioned, in effect, as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Although future life experiences might alter these patterns, the pattern itself operates in a self-fulfilling prophecy to be selfreinforcing, thus increasing its stability across the life span.
Second, if she does attend, the anticipatory anxiety may turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, in that anxiety increases sensitivity to painful stimulation.
