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self-defeating prophecy  

Définition

  • Robert Merton (1968) coined the phrase self-fulfilling prophecy to describe “a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true” (p. 477). [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Prophecy, Self-Fulfilling/Self-Defeating]

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