{"id":2475,"date":"2022-02-09T11:55:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:55:49","slug":"review-the-expectation-effect-how-your-mindset-can-transform-your-life-by-david-robson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-expectation-effect-how-your-mindset-can-transform-your-life-by-david-robson\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life, by David Robson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Science journalist David Robson makes something very clear early on in this book: this is NOT going to be one of those books (like Rhonda Byrne&#8217;s best-selling The Secret) that insists you can wish yourself to become rich or powerful.  As he makes clear, we cannot &#8212;  for example &#8212; prevent ourselves from ageing.  But can influence <em>how<\/em> we age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an evidence-based popular work on how what we expect influences how we live.  Some of the studies are mind-blowing.  I knew that placebos work nearly as well as real medicines in many cases. (Which explains the &#8220;success&#8221; of some alternative treatments.) But what I didn&#8217;t know was that studies have now shown that even when people are told they are taking a placebo, it can still work.  Amazing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A very good, positive and upbeat book &#8211; highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science journalist David Robson makes something very clear early on in this book: this is NOT going to be one of those books (like Rhonda Byrne&#8217;s best-selling The Secret) that insists you can wish yourself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}