Spring Holiday Episode: How expectations affect kids

Release date: April 10, 2023

In this Spring Holiday episode, I discuss the ways that expectations affect kids and how we, as adults who care about them, can adjust our expectations to help them succeed. Links to the research I cite are below. Full-length Talking About Kids episodes will return next week.

Links

Teacher Expectancy Effect, Pygmalion Effect, and Golem Effect

https://dictionary.apa.org/pygmalion-effect

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1983-01891-001

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1211911.pdf

Albert Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory

https://www.apa.org/pi/aids/resources/education/self-efficacy#:~:text=Self%2Defficacy%20refers%20to%20an,%2C%20behavior%2C%20and%20social%20environment.

Victor H. Vroom's Expectancy Theory

https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/research/dstools/vrooms-expectancy-theory/