" self-fulfilling "

 [ "Self Fulfilling Prophecy" ]

1: Positive or negative expectations about circumstances, events, or people that may affect a persons behavior toward them in a manner that he or she (unknowingly) creates situations in which those expectations are fulfilled. In other words, causing something to happen by believing it will come true

  * e.g.,  ... ____ Example 1: An employer sees a new employee and automatically expects him to be disloyal. The employer then treats the employee in a way to elicit the very response he concluded. Example 2: Labeling someone a "criminal," and treating that person as such, may foster criminal behavior in the person who is subjected to the expectation, thus creating a self fulfilling prophecy 

 [ "Self-Fulfilling Twat" ]

1: A twat who claims he's only behaving like a twat in defence of the fact that other people keep calling him a twat behind his back.

  * e.g.,  ... I can't be bothered to try and make sense of the man anymore, he just seems to be a self-fulfilling twat. 

 [ "Self-Fulfilling Twat" ]

2: Similar to a self-fulfilling prophecy but more personal, and often used as a defense mechanism, usually by men to avoid ever having to engage with anyone emotionally, or say sorry.

 [ "Self-Fulfilling Twat" ]

3: Their phrase of choice should you ask them why they're behaving like a twat is of course: 'Are you calling me a twat then!?' and then centre all their twatness upon you as you obviously must be the source of why everyone thinks they're a twat, and are no longer inviting them to any more social events.

 [ "self-fulfilling prophecy" ]

1: When a false or true statement is said about someone enough times, it eventually becomes true.

  * e.g.,  ... If you call your girlfriend a bitch, she will become a self-fulfilling prophecy and act like a bitch. 

 [ "Paranoid Self Fulfillment" ]

1: The act of being so convinced that your worst fear is going to come true that you force it to become true, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Common Examples: *people who are so afraid they are going to be dumped, they dump their boyfriend/girlfriend/ spouse as a precautionary measure.

  * e.g.,  ... Suzie: So, Lisa, how is it going with Ted? 

 [ "Paranoid Self Fulfillment" ]

2: *companies who are in financial trouble who's managers run the company into the ground through their lame attempts to prevent the company from failing;

  * e.g.,  ... Lisa: Oh, I dumped him last week. 

 [ "Paranoid Self Fulfillment" ]

3: *an employee who underperforms and gets fired;

  * e.g.,  ... Suzie: But it seemed like things were going so well!