Profetia autorealizatoare, mai eficienta în manipularea grupurilor decât a indivizilor?
Is self fulfilling prophecy more efficient in group than individual manipulation?

Summary/Abstract: Underlining the self-fulfilling prophecy has been the aim of a large number of studies in social psychology. Nevertheless very few of them are focused on the its evolution in time. This present study belongs to the later category and envisages the enlargement of the empirical basis for the use of the self-fulfilling prophecy as a manipulation technique. The study is based on the universal manifestation of the Muhammad Ali phenomenon in the Western culture. We have tried to eliminate the respective phenomenon by means of manipulating the self-image, which triggers the appearance of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Therefore, we used four experimental groups made by students in social psychology. During the seminars, the participants were induced to believe that they consider themselves either more intelligent (the members of two groups), or more honest (the other two groups). The assessment of the impact on the alteration of the self-image took place immediately for two groups while for the other two groups it took place two weeks later. Meanwhile, the experimenter reminded the respective groups, on different occasions, the initial image. A presence of the manipulating activity was registered after this period, but at the same time, there was a decrease of the intensity of its effects.

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