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#456 - David Robson - The Psychological Power Of Expectations

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The Proximal Zone of Development for the Expectation Effect

Stress and anxiety has to be in the 'proximal zone' of development. Not too far, not too little - that's what we call expectation effect. Science shows stress responses can be really useful and adaptive. For example, cortesal is kind of sharpening your mind when you're stressed. It's actually helping you to release kaneglucos into your blood during hard work. So its preparing you for like, a big challenge, im. And it also just helped the them to kind of recover from the anxiety afterwards.

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