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What is the expectancy effect? How do your expectations unconsciously come true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Expectation Effect<\/em>, David Robson argues that your brain, body, and environments conspire to create what researchers call expectancy effects. This means that what you expect to be or do becomes your reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading to learn more about this effect and how it plays a role in your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What Are Expectancy Effects?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An expectancy effect occurs when your beliefs exert an influence over your well-being<\/strong>, as when you take a pill for a headache and feel better not because of what\u2019s in the pill but because you expect the pill to cure your headache. According to Robson, your body, brain, and the culture you live in create these effects, which are powerful and pervasive. In this section of the guide, we\u2019ll explore how the brain\u2019s perception process creates expectancy effects and how what we believe becomes our reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Does Your Brain Construct Your Reality?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To understand how expectancy effects work, it helps to know that your brain doesn\u2019t just perceive reality\u2014it actively constructs it<\/strong>. Robson explains that as you perceive the world<\/a> around you, your brain draws on information relayed by your senses as well as information inferred from your past experiences. In the process, your brain generates predictions about the sensory information<\/a> it receives, like when you see a fly and your brain predicts its path so that you can swat it away from your face. The brain constructs a representation of what it thinks is happening and what it predicts will happen, and you perceive this representation as reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brain relies heavily on these predictions. The visual cortex, the region of the brain<\/a> that processes information received from the eyes, has extensive connections to other brain regions that make predictions\u2014which illustrates how the brain is wired to rely on prior knowledge<\/strong>. Robson notes that it makes evolutionary sense for the brain to depend on predictions: Using predictions to inform perception reduces the amount of sensory information it has to process and enables it to focus on surprising sensory details, like the snake that you might just step on if your brain doesn\u2019t alert you to get out of the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Neuroscientists say that the brain makes predictions because it takes time<\/a> for visual information to travel from the retina through the brain to the visual cortex in the back of the brain<\/a>. If the brain didn\u2019t compensate for the delay, information would be outdated by the time it\u2019s processed. So the visual cortex relies on predictions to guess what\u2019s happening before the sensory information arrives, collaborating with other areas of the brain such as the hippocampus<\/a> to anticipate what will happen next. Scientists think that the brain operates this way because the world around us is ambiguous, and we have only so much processing power<\/a> to make sense of it\u2014so making predictions is a quick and efficient way to cope with those limitations.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robson points out that although the brain is good at making predictions, it can sometimes get tripped up<\/strong>. Your feelings and expectations can bias your brain\u2019s predictions, like when you\u2019re feeling nervous<\/a> and your expectations about the situation make you think someone looks angry when they aren\u2019t. Though perception feels objective, it\u2019s not. As we\u2019ll see in the next section, your body sometimes acts on your brain\u2019s mistaken predictions, creating expectancy effects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Experts say that if you\u2019re depressed, anxious, or irritable<\/a>\u2014or if you were exposed to violence or abuse as a child\u2014you\u2019re more likely to interpret someone else\u2019s expression as hostile when it isn\u2019t intended that way.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Do Your Beliefs Become Your Reality? <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Expectancy effects come into play because when it comes to predictions about our own bodies and minds, our expectations exert such a strong influence that the brain makes them true<\/strong>. Robson explains that this often happens because the brain produces physiological changes throughout the body, like when you take an herbal remedy that might not reduce your aches and pains on its own, but works because your brain signals your body to reduce inflammation when you take it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Though the placebo effect<\/a> is well-documented, scientists don\u2019t always agree about how or why it works. Some researchers say that it\u2019s unclear whether a placebo can really affect the physiological processes<\/a> that cause<\/em> an illness. But the placebo effect does seem to activate neurotransmitters in the brain<\/a> that may help relieve symptoms.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our memories and beliefs aren\u2019t the only sources of predictions that become reality. Robson notes that sometimes, our expectations come from the culture around us<\/strong>, for example, when we absorb the message that growing older means getting slower or weaker. If we believe this message strongly enough, the brain makes it our reality as we age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Negative cultural stereotypes about aging are everywhere. Researchers say that it\u2019s important to cultivate optimism and self-efficacy<\/a>, two traits that can help you look at your future in a positive way. Negative stereotypes can hurt your sense of self-efficacy, in particular, so maintaining a sense of agency<\/a> can help you counter the expectations you internalize.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What About Positive Thinking or the Law of Attraction?  <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Robson emphasizes that expectancy effects are not the same thing as positive thinking or the law of attraction<\/a><\/strong>, which he characterizes as \u201cpseudoscience.\u201d The law of attraction<\/a> is the principle that positive thoughts<\/a> can attract the things you want. By contrast, expectancy effects work via psychological and physiological mechanisms set in motion by the specific expectations we have about our bodies or minds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: While expectancy effects only work under specific circumstances, Rhonda Byrne writes in The Secret<\/em><\/a> that the law of attraction is infallible<\/a>: It\u2019s working all the time, picking up on the \u201cthought messages\u201d that you send out into the world. Critics say that the law of attraction has scant evidence to back it up, and some experts say that following it requires you to live in a state of mindlessness<\/a>. Conversely, evidence suggests that mindfulness<\/a> (the opposite of mindlessness) produces benefits for our health and well-being, as we\u2019ll see in Robson\u2019s explanation of expectancy effects that work because of the connection between our psychology and physiology.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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