Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 31: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

[Fred Shapiro]

self-fulfilling (OED 1949)

1948 Robert K. Merton in _Antioch Review_ Summer 193  (heading) The
self-fulfilling prophecy.

Fred Shapiro


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