David Robson, "The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World" (Henry Holt, 2022)
New Books in Neuroscience
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A Very Interesting Book
We know there's a physiological cause to this that comes from the expectations. That just really fascinated me so much that i kept on gathering more and more papers on the expectation effect. And aranda of two thousand and 17 and 18, i came to realize that actually we were now seeing research that took this out of medicine, out of hospitals and doctors surgeries, and into all areas of our lives. So things like the of sleep less our reactions to diet and exercise, even how we age, all seemed to be shaped by our expectations. It was why i wanted to write this book that really charted this research and showed how we might be able to use it to improve our lives.
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