Source
The Expectation Effect
David Robson
David Robson's award-winning 2022 book on how beliefs create self-fulfilling prophecies through three mechanisms: changes to perception, changes to behavior, and changes to physiology. Source for the Gatwick drones analysis, the Benedetti altitude-headache nocebo study, VO2 max and genetic sham-feedback studies, the Virenque Tour de France case, the Job/Dweck/Walton willpower-mindset study, and Ellen Langer's visual-acuity studies.
Discussed in
- Episode 298 — 298-were-the-2018-gatwick-drones-real