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227 - Imaginable - Jane McGonigal

You Are Not So Smart

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What Is a Parisesa?

In an experiment, students were asked to imagine a novel illness for two weeks. The people who had vivid imaginations wrote longer and more persuasive journal entries than those who couldn't think of the symptoms. She says she fangirls about studies that show how we can change opinions before they have one.

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