The Expectation Effect: Transform Your Mindset
Ed Stott & The Big Life Questions
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How Does the Expectation Effect Work?
In the 1970s, men who emigrated from Laos to the US started dying of heart attacks in their sleep. Medical anthropologists found it was linked to this belief that a demon had been sitting on them and suffocating them. We're all experiencing these negative expectation effects all the time - we just have to be aware of it for our own safety.
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