Social perception and social reality: why accuracy dominates bias and self-fulfilling prophesy

Section I: Introduction: This Book, Basic Ideas, and the Early Research. Introduction: How Might Social Beliefs Relate to Social Reality? ; Social Reality is Not Always What it Appears To Be: The Scientific Roots of Research on Interpersonal Expectancies ; The Once Raging and Still Smoldering Pygmalion Controversy.

Section II: The Awesome Power of Expectations to Create Reality and Distort Perceptions. The Extraordinary Power of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies ; The Extraordinary Power of Expectancies to Bias Perception, Memory, and Information-Seeking.

Section III: The Less Than Awesome Power of Expectations to Create Reality and Distort Perceptions. The Less Than Extraordinary Power of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Considerations Based on Common Sense, Daily Life, and a Critical Evaluation of the Early Classic Experiments ; You Better Change Your Expectations Because I Will Not Change (Much) to Fit Your Expectations: Self-Verification as a Limit to Self-Fulfilling Prophecies ; The Less Than Awesome Power of Expectations to Distort Information-Seeking ; The Less Than Awesome Power of Expectations to Bias Perception, Memory and Judgment.

Section IV: Accuracy: Controversies, Criticisms, Criteria, Components, and Cognitive Processes. Accuracy: Historical, Political, and Conceptual Objections ; Accuracy: Criteria ; Accuracy: Components and Processes.

Section V: The Quest for the Powerful Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Teacher Expectations: Accuracy and the Quest for the Powerful Self-Fulfilling Prophecy ; Do Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Accumulate or Dissipate?.

Section VI: Stereotypes. On the Pervasiveness and Logical Incoherence of Defining Stereotypes as Inaccurate ; What Constitutes Evidence of Stereotype Accuracy? ; Pervasive Stereotype Accuracy ; Stereotypes and Person Perception: Can Judging Individuals on the Basis of Stereotypes Ever Increase Accuracy? ; Stereotypes Have Been Stereotyped!.

Section VII: Conclusion. Important, Interesting and Controversial Work on Accuracy, Bias, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies that Did Not Fit Elsewhere ; The 90% Full Glass Contests the Scholarly Bias for Bias.