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Pygmalion effects

Pygmalion effects is the plural of Pygmalion effect.

Meaning of Pygmalion effect

Noun

Pygmalion effect (plural Pygmalion effects)

  1. The phenomenon whereby the greater the expectation placed upon people is, the better they perform.

Questions about Pygmalion effects

What is Pygmalion effects the plural of?
Pygmalion effects is the plural of Pygmalion effect.

Words near Pygmalion effects in the dictionary

  1. pygidium
  2. pygidiums
  3. pygmaean
  4. pygmalion
  5. Pygmalion effect
  6. Pygmalion effects
  7. Pygmalion word
  8. Pygmalionesque
  9. Pygmalionic
  10. pygmalionism
  11. pygmalions

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