Linda: The myth of Pygmalion is told in Ovid's Metaphorphoses. Pygmalion was a gifted young sculptor in Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had carved. Pygmalion had strong misgivings about women ...

In the early 1960s, a psychology experiment at the University of North Dakota involved students working with lab rats. Half were informed their rats were genetically predisposed to excel in learning ...

Through recent day-to-day mass media and Internet sites, we often hear of two reciprocal but similar theories called the "butterfly effect" and the "Pygmalion effect." The butterfly effect is the ...