self-fulfilling prophecy

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

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Coined by sociologist Robert K. Merton.

13 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 自證預言 /自证预言 (zìzhèng yùyán) — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• Finnish: itseään toteuttava ennuste — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• Finnish: itsensä toteuttava ennuste — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• French: prophétie autoréalisatrice — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• German: selbsterfüllende Prophezeiung — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• Hungarian: önbeteljesítő jóslat — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• Icelandic: virk spá — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• Korean: 자기 충족적 예언 (jagi chungjokjeok yeeon) — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• Macedonian: самоисполнително пророштво (samoispolnitelno proroštvo) — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• Polish: samospełniająca się przepowiednia — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• Spanish: profecía autocumplida — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• Swedish: självuppfyllande profetia — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
• Vietnamese: lời tiên tri tự hoàn thành — A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true