Fight that negative bias!
Ever heard of the Pygmalion effect? It’s that psychological phenomenon where your expectation of a person actually affects the way that person performs.
For example, if a teacher expects high performance from a pupil, that pupil will tend to perform well. Conversely, if the teacher expects poor performance, the pupil will tend to perform badly. Psychologists Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson demonstrated this outcome in a famous 1968 study involving disguised IQ
