The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life

Robson, David

ISBN 10: 183885326X / ISBN 13: 9781838853266

Verlag: Canongate Books, 2022

Beschreibung

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003315

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 183885326X
• ISBN-13: 9781838853266
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022: HEALTH AND WELLBEING
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POPULAR SCIENCE

People who believe ageing brings wisdom live longer.
Lucky charms really do improve an athlete's performance.
Taking a placebo, even when you know it is a placebo, can still improve your health.
Welcome to The Expectation Effect.

In this book David Robson takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge research happening right now that suggests our expectations shape our experience. Bringing together fascinating case studies and evidence-based science, The Expectation Effect uncovers new techniques that we can all use to improve our fitness, productivity, intelligence, health and happiness.

Of course, you can't just think yourself thinner, happier or fitter, but using this book you can reframe many different facets of your life, and in so doing start real physiological change. These easy-to-use skills will help you on your way to becoming the person you want to be, living the life you want to live.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Robson is an award-winning science journalist. His first book, The Intelligence Trap, has been translated into 15 languages and his second, The Expectation Effect, won the British Psychological Society Award. Previously an editor and senior journalist at BBC Future, Robson is now a freelance journalist; his writing has appeared in The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Atlantic, Washington Post and more.

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