Definition of Oedipus effect in English:
Oedipus effect
noun
The influence of a prediction on the predicted event.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994), philosopher. With allusion to that part of the legend of Oedipus which evidences the self-fulfilling nature of a prophecy or prediction.
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