The expectation effect : how your mindset can change your world

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Label

The expectation effect : how your mindset can change your world

Title remainder

how your mindset can change your world

Statement of responsibility

David Robson

Creator

• Robson, David, (Science journalist)

Author

• Robson, David, (Science journalist)

Subject

• Attitude (Psychology)
• Expectation (Psychology)
• Self-actualization (Psychology)

Language

eng

Summary

What you believe can make it so. You?ve heard of the placebo effect and how sugar pills can accelerate healing. But did you know that sham heart surgeries often work just as well as placing real stents? Or that people who think they?re particularly prone to cardiovascular disease are four times as likely to die from cardiac arrest? Such is the power and deadly importance of the expectation effect?how what we think will happen changes what does happen. Melding neuroscience with narrative, science journalist David Robson takes readers on a deep dive into the many life zones the expectation effect permeates. We see how people who believe stress is beneficial become more creative when placed under strain. We see how associating aging with wisdom can add seven plus years to your life. People say seeing is believing but, over and over, Robson proves that the converse is truer: believing is seeing. The Expectation Effect is not woo-woo. You cannot think your way into a pile of money or out of a cancer diagnosis. But just because magical thinking is nonsense doesn?t mean rational magic doesn?t exist. Pointing to accepted psychology and objective physiology, Robson gives us the practical takeaways we need to improve our fitness, productivity, intelligence, and happiness

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

158.1

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BF323.E8

LC item number

R63 2022

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult