Pygmalion effect, also known as Expectation Effect or Rosenthal Effect, was put forward by famous American psychologists Rosenthal and Jacobson in primary school teaching. It means that teachers' expectations are transmitted to students explicitly or implicitly, which will make students shape their positive behavior in the direction of teachers' expectations. Therefore, pygmalion effect embodies the positive influence of teachers' expectations on students.
What are the disadvantages of children falling into pygmalion effect?
1, things become inactive.
When we always look at children critically, children will look at themselves critically. Our negative emotions and repeated insults will make children feel self-denial. Since children begin to deny themselves, how can they go all out to do things? Therefore, not taking the initiative to do things has become the normal state of children.
2. Serious negative psychology.
If children are often criticized, they will be dragged down by pygmalion effect, and their negative psychology will become more and more serious. Every time we reprimand, the children will examine themselves. "Am I really bad?" "Am I really incapable of doing this?" "Will I really let my parents down?" . This effect is like reincarnation, which is constantly spread, mapped and played back in children's minds.
Therefore, children's behavior has become more and more passive, and negative emotions have prompted them to never do something seriously, so they began to do the opposite.
3. Inferiority starts from this moment.
Children's inferiority often has a great relationship with our daily behavior, and the effect transmitted by Pygmalion is the source of children's inferiority complex. When we insult children, will children reflect on themselves because of being abused? Not necessarily! Children are more likely to stimulate their hearts because of our insults, so they don't like to communicate with us.
When our frequent criticism makes their behavior more and more passive, children will have inferiority complex. Inferiority is an inferiority complex. Being criticized for a long time, inferiority complex is obvious.
Pygmalion, a double-edged sword, is likely to hurt children's self-esteem if it is not well controlled. Once self-esteem is frustrated, it is difficult to correct the child's mentality. We are well aware of the real meaning implied by pygmalion effect, that is, encouraging children to behave themselves.