The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
So if you just expect that your blood pressure will go down, what are the mechanisms through which that expectation would lead to your blood pressure going down way? It's hard to even understand that, right? But if you have the mindset that, you're in good hands, that this is being taken care of, that this illness is not going to kill you, right? That you're being treated well. Then you can start to unpack the mechanisms through which blood pressure could be relieved.
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And so, I really think that, the work of the future needs to be on getting more sophisticated about what is the mindset that we're instilling when we say something will work or it won't work. And how do we understand the mechanisms through which that changes physiology?
but they have an impact not just through the motivational mechanisms that Dwek and others have studied, but as our lab has started to reveal, they also shape physiological mechanisms by changing what our bodies prioritize and prepare to do.
she's worked on these mindset effects or belief effects these are different than and Placebo effects the short answer is yes