The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Robert Merton's essay on the self-fulfilling prophecy. Both papers cite it for the human sciences, whose subjects read and respond to what is said about them. It is a precedent for performative ingestion (P13) and part of the case that swarm ecology needs the human sciences' tradition as well as biology's.

Cited in

both papers (Flagship: Fig. 4; Companion §8, Fig. 8)

Used for

P13Studying up; P13; Companion Fig. 8a (Flagship Fig. 4a)

Strand

Studying up: reflexivity, observation & method · Reflexivity, performativity & studying up

Cite

@article{merton1948selffulfilling,
  title = {The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy},
  author = {Robert K. Merton},
  year = {1948},
  journal = {The Antioch Review},
}