expectation

This showed how the expectations of the coaches influenced even the performance of rats.

Our interpretations can reinforce our expectations… or challenge them… or even help us imagine new possibilities for how we might live.

And just by existing, he challenges his family’s expectations of what it means to be a man.

Then there’s gender: which describes the roles, expectations, and power dynamics a culture reinforces about women, men, girls, boys, trans folks, nonbinary people, everyone.

The Pygmalion effect is the phenomenon whereby higher expectations lead to higher performance.

For my parents, college was an expectation.

It knows it wouldn’t appeal to everyone but once someone has been charmed, the expectation is that they will always remain on board.

It typically strikes some Japanese tourists who come to the French capital full of excitement and romantic expectations but are then confronted with filth and arrogance.

The scene was, you know, great because the kind of weight off my shoulders, was removed because the expectations I had for myself of being, like, you know, perfect in every moment were just taken away.