Timeline for Name for awareness of the probability of an event increasing the probability of it happening

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Jan 14, 2015 at 2:21	comment	added	Doug		The term I was looking for was self-fulfilling prophecy from below.
Jan 13, 2015 at 22:54	comment	added	Doug		I like the term self-edifying truths, but that seems to have a Christian connotation
Jan 13, 2015 at 22:49	comment	added	Doug		In my answer, I covered this situaion in markets, which is a more common example. "it increases the death rate through speeding through an increased belief in the statement's validity." It is a reassessment of the beliefs of drivers that changes the frequency of death. Suppose you only told one person that probability speeding kills. Now their probability of dying goes up because they've reassessed their beliefs. They're more likely to die because they believe they will.
Jan 12, 2015 at 22:57	comment	added	Darren		Thanks for answering this, Doug, but it doesn't get to the root of the question. This isn't about becoming more confident in your beliefs. It's more like the equivalent of 'thoughts create reality' or a 'self-fulfilling prophecy'. I.e. is there a phenomenon in psychology whereby (in this example) if a population is told repeatedly that speeding kills, that it increases the death rate through speeding through an increased belief in the statement's validity, regardless of the probability beforehand?
Jan 12, 2015 at 12:14	history	edited	Doug	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 483 characters in body
Jan 12, 2015 at 12:04	history	answered	Doug	CC BY-SA 3.0