I found someone who wrote an interesting list of the following topics on X and I wrote em all down and realized they were all in the category of "expectation-based causal behavioral models"
Merton's 1948 false definition research
Rosenthal & Jacobson's 1968 Pygmalion
Snyder, Tanke & Berscheid's 1977 behavioral confirmation experiments
Kirsch's 1985 response expectancy theory
Montgomery & Kirsch's 1997 conditioning
how expectations alter dACC activity patterns
placebo conditioning mechanisms