Don't Accentuate the Positive
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Mental Practice Can Make Perfect
Mentally eating a food feel so much like your actually doing it that you eat less chocolate in real life. People who imagined eating m and ms ate about half as many as people who imagined popping quarters. Merely imagining causes enough of the same cues and physiological signals that we can learn from a behavior we just saw inside our heads.
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