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How Expectations Keep You Stuck | David Robson

The Art of Charm

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The Nocebo Effect and the Placebo Effect

The expectation effect is the phenomenon where our beliefs create self-fulfilling prophecies through free, main, but potentially intersecting mechanisms. It can happen in all areas of life, not just in medicine with the placebo and nossy birthsheets, but with our reactions to exercise to a new diet in education. Even how we age can be shaped by expectation effects through these three different mechanisms. So what does the science show us about the internal expectations that are created? And then the external from media and other people that we're related to.

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