It seems that no one has integrated this literature yet. I will take a quick stab at it here. It could be expanded into a proper paper later in case someone wants to and have time to do that. Stereotypes Lee Jussim (also blog) has done a tremendous job at reviewing the stereotype literature in recently years. In general he has found that stereotypes are mostly moderately to very accurate. On the other hand, self-fulfilling prophecies are probably real but fairly limited (e.g. work best when teachers don't know their students well yet), especially in comparison to stereotype accuracy. Of course, these findings are exactly the opposite of what social psychologists,