TY - JOUR
T1 - Pygmalion goes to boot camp
T2 - Expectancy, leadership, and trainee performance
AU - Eden, Dov
AU - Shani, Abraham B.
PY - 1982/4
Y1 - 1982/4
N2 - Tested the applicability of the Pygmalion effect to adult military trainees and examined the effects of expectancy on instructor leadership. 105 male Ss were matched on aptitude and randomly assigned to high, regular, and unspecified instructor-expectancy conditions. The Pygmalion hypothesis was confirmed. Ss with instructors who had been induced to expect better performance scored significantly higher on objective achievement tests, exhibited more positive attitudes, and perceived more positive leadership behavior. Instructor expectancy explained 73% of the variance in performance, 66% in attitudes, and 28% in leadership. The causal interplay between expectancy, leadership, and performance, and the notion of applying the Pygmalion effect by deliberately raising supervisors' expectations through "expectancy training" are discussed. (20 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
AB - Tested the applicability of the Pygmalion effect to adult military trainees and examined the effects of expectancy on instructor leadership. 105 male Ss were matched on aptitude and randomly assigned to high, regular, and unspecified instructor-expectancy conditions. The Pygmalion hypothesis was confirmed. Ss with instructors who had been induced to expect better performance scored significantly higher on objective achievement tests, exhibited more positive attitudes, and perceived more positive leadership behavior. Instructor expectancy explained 73% of the variance in performance, 66% in attitudes, and 28% in leadership. The causal interplay between expectancy, leadership, and performance, and the notion of applying the Pygmalion effect by deliberately raising supervisors' expectations through "expectancy training" are discussed. (20 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
KW - instructor expectancy, trainee performance & attitudes toward leadership, male military basic trainees, Israel
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0001268627&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/0021-9010.67.2.194
DO - 10.1037/0021-9010.67.2.194
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AN - SCOPUS:0001268627
SN - 0021-9010
VL - 67
SP - 194
EP - 199
JO - Journal of Applied Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Psychology
IS - 2
ER -