High expectations in negotiation are more influential than low expectations, with maximum aspiration having a greater impact on positive outcomes than minimum aspiration.

The importance of expectations on negotiation results

Overly optimistic expectations of spinal surgery outcomes are the most significant predictor of self-rated outcome, emphasizing the importance of realistic expectations before surgery.

Great Expectations: Really the Novel Predictor of Outcome After Spinal Surgery?

High pre-operative expectations for hip and knee replacement surgery lead to better objective outcomes but less subjective improvement, with physicians' expectations influencing outcomes in knee patients.

High Pre-Operative Expectations Precede Both Unfulfilled Expectations and Clinical Improvement After Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement.

High-expectation comments increase students' mental activity and confidence in the test, but do not significantly impact immediate test scores.

High-expectation comments increase students’ mental activity and confidence in the test

Students' expected and actual academic achievement show moderate positive associations, with expectations being more positive than actual achievement, but these differences decrease over time.

Students’ expected and actual academic achievement – A meta-analysis

Setting specific, modest goals and progressively increasing demands can improve organizational performance and boost employee motivation.

Demand better results--and get them.

Better alliance quality partially mediates the link between optimistic patient outcome expectations and posttreatment improvement in psychotherapy.

Indirect effect of patient outcome expectation on improvement through alliance quality: A meta-analysis

Positive outcome expectations in psychotherapy have a small but significant positive effect on adaptive treatment outcomes.

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High expectation teacher training significantly improved students' mathematics achievement over one year, with high satisfaction among teachers and integrity in implementation.

A teacher expectation intervention: Modelling the practices of high expectation teachers

High teacher expectations positively impact student achievement, and the Connecticut Department of Education model recognizes this as a key factor in school improvement.

Teacher Expectations: A Model for School Improvement

Patient expectations are inconsistently correlated with postoperative patient-reported outcomes, and a reliable method for measuring expectations is needed for integrating them into surgical quality measures.

Patient expectations and patient-reported outcomes in surgery: a systematic review.

Positive recovery expectations are associated with better health outcomes, highlighting the need for clinicians to clarify patients' expectations and help them develop appropriate recovery expectations.

Does how you do depend on how you think you'll do? A systematic review of the evidence for a relation between patients' recovery expectations and health outcomes.

Low-expectation subjects perform better in moderate task-value conditions, while high-expectation subjects perform better in high task-value conditions.

The Influence of Expectations on Task Performance in Audience and Solitary Settings

Optimal expectations balance subjective beliefs and current felicity, leading to better decisions and better realized outcomes.

Optimal Expectations

High teacher expectations lead to higher student reading achievement and more positive beliefs at the end of the year, but not self-concept.

Achievement and beliefs outcomes of students with high and low expectation teachers

Teacher expectations can sustain poor student performance by varying feedback methods and influencing students' belief in effort-outcome covariation.

Pygmalion Grows Up: A Model for Teacher Expectation Communication and Performance Influence

High self-esteem individuals show significantly better task performance when faced with favorable or unfavorable expectations in a simulated work environment.

The effects of expectations upon task performance as moderated by levels of self-esteem

Fulfilled expectations in total hip replacement surgery lead to a greater quality of life than unfulfilled expectations, suggesting success is less effective than expectations as a measure of outcome.

Patients' expectations in relation to outcome of total hip replacment surgery.

Positive teacher expectations may not always lead to high student achievement, as student motivation, enthusiasm, and achievement are influenced by multiple factors besides teacher expectations.

A Case Study of the "Pygmalion Effect": Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement.

CS1 students with high expectations of an A do better than those with low expectations, and continuing in computer science does not predict better grades.

Predictors of success and failure in a CS1 course

Do high expectations lead to better results?

These studies suggest that high expectations generally lead to better results in various contexts, including negotiation, surgery outcomes, psychotherapy, and education, although the impact may vary between objective and subjective measures.