皮革马利翁是古希腊神话中塞浦路斯国王的名字,由于他对一座少女雕象产生爱慕之情,并倾心追求,终于使这尊雕象“活”了起来。美国心理学家罗森塔尔所做的期望效应实验,其结果与此相似,故取名“皮革马利翁效应”,后来人们亦常称此为罗森塔尔效应。 1968年,罗森塔尔在雅各布逊小学对小学生进行智力测量,并宣称这是一种有助于 Leather Marion is the name of the king of Cyprus in ancient Greek mythology, and as a result of his admiration for a statue of a maiden, he pursued it and finally “made” the statue alive. The result was similar to the expected effect experiment done by the American psychologist Rosenthal, hence the name “Leather Marion Effect”, which was also later called Rosenthal effect. In 1968, Rosenthal conducted an intelligence survey of primary school students at Jacobson Elementary School and claimed that it was a