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7Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Self-fulfilling prophecy is engaging in behaviors that obtain results that confirm existing attitudes. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that causes itself to become true. For example, I believe that I am going to do poorly in school, so I decrease the effort I put into my assignments and studying, and I end up doing poorly, just as I thought. Another common example is relationships; I think my relationship with my significant other is going to fail, so I start acting differently, pulling away emotionally. Because of my actions, I actually cause the relationship to fail. This is a powerful tool used by “psychics” – they implant an idea in your mind, and you eventually make it happen because you think it will.
Interesting Fact: Economic Recessions are self-fulfilling prophecies. Because a recession is 2 quarters of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decline, you cannot know you are in a recession until you are at least 6 months into one. Unfortunately, at the first sign of decreasing GDP, the media reports a possible recession, people panic and start a chain of events that actually cause a recession.
7 自我實現的預言
自我實現的預言是說在一些既定的想法下事情真的會發生。一個自我實現的預言就是會實現的真的預言。舉個例子，我相信我在學校里會變窮，所以我就減少了開支，而且努力學習，最后我還是和我想的一樣變窮了。另一個常見的例子是有關關系的：我想我和其他人之間的關系會變差，于是我就開始下意識做一些不同的事。正是因為我的這些行為，真的使我們關系變差了。這個在心理學上被廣泛運用了—他們在你心里做出暗示，那么那件事就真的會發生，因為你認為它會發生。
有趣的現象：經濟衰退就是一件自我實現的預言。因為衰退指國內生產總值（GDP）減少一半,直到最后6個月的時候你才會發現自己處于衰退之中。不幸的是，因為看到了GDP的減少，媒體報道了衰退的可能性，人們就開始恐慌，然后引發了一系列的事情，最后導致經濟衰退。
