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The expectation effect, with David Robson
Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes
The Expectation Effect
You say the expectation effect is not about mere optimism. And you say it's about expecting specific things, not just a generalized positive thinking. You have no truck with new age self-help books such as The Secret which promotes the law of attraction - e.g. visualizing more money brings you more money. But we know that there should be a good mechanism through kind of changes to the hormonal balance or changes to our blood pressure,. All of these things can be influenced by the brains workings.
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