Supera tus expectativas

Taking a placebo, even knowing it is a placebo, can significantly improve health. Adopting an indulgent attitude towards food helps you lose weight. An amulet can really help an athlete perform better. Or, even more surprising, people with a positive attitude towards the last years of their lives are less likely to suffer from frailty and illness (including Alzheimer's) than those who associate age with senility and disability. It is "the expectation effect", the phenomenon by which our expectations and beliefs, even the most irrational ones, determine our experiences in real and quantifiable ways. Using exciting case studies and solid scientific studies published in prestigious journals, award-winning journalist David Robson explores the psychological and physiological mechanisms by which our mentality conditions -for better and worse- our lives and proposes revolutionary techniques that will allow us to improve our performance, productivity, intelligence, health and happiness.