When you treat people in a manner consistent with your stereotype, they often act in accordance with the behavior you expected of them. This is known as

a. groupthink.
b. a just-world belief.
c. a self-fulfilling prophecy.
d. the fundamental attribution error.

ANSWER: c

Psychology

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