Achieving Your New Year's Resolutions: The Science of Getting To Where You Want To Be with Best-Selling Author Katy Milkman (repost) (#73)
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Are You Using Expectations to Shape Reality?
Sally Kohn: I was fascinated that you found that we cad even just use expectations to shape or change reality. She says the placibo effect is a well known phenomenon where once you mentally code something as working, you may behave differently. The story of george denzig is that he was i graduate student who walked in late to class and saw a couple of problems on the board and jotted them down as soon. They were home work. Having that expectation may have shaped his motivation and inability to solve those important problems.
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