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is there a verb or name for the following:?
when I keep telling myself: "I will catch a cold in winter, I will catch a cold in winter" and after sometime, I do, what's this called in English? is it the power of suggestion? or the power of suggestion is only used when someone else keeps saying things to us?
5 Answers
- ?Lv 74 years agoFavorite Answer
Most commonly, it is a self-fulfilling prophesy. Specifically, when one makes a prediction, is convinced it will happen, and it does actually occur, it is referred to as a self-fulfilling prophesy.
- Anonymous4 years ago
It's called "stating the obvious." Very few people will go all thru the winter without getting a cold.
- Anonymous4 years ago
It's called a coincidence, and not a very surprising one.
If you could prove a cause-and-effect relationship between the repetition of that sentence and the disease, then you'd say you had a psychosomatic disease, but that's almost certainly not what is happening. You catch a cold in winter because of stress on your immune system and/or because you're traveling and/or because you tend to stay inside with other people and their germs more, and stuff like that.
- Anonymous4 years ago
auto-suggestion and if you keep saying it then it happens
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