[perfectpullquote align="right" bordertop="false" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size=""]Clever Hans is one of the best examples how a self- fulfilling prophecy works and how our expectations or the expectations of others influence our behavior[/perfectpullquote] Clever Hans was a horse that was famous for being able to read, spell, and solve math problems by stomping out answers with his front hoof. Naturally there were many skeptics, but when a committee of experts tested Hans’s abilities, they were found to be genuinely performed without prompting from Mr. von Osten, his trainer. The world was amazed with such a degree of human intelligence and they wanted to know how it was possible. O. Pfungst, a psychologist, performed a series of careful experiments and found that Hans was receiving subtle unintentional cues from his questioners. For example, after asking a question, people would look down at the horse's hoof for the answer. As the horse approached the correct number of hoof-beats, the questioners would…