“What you see reflects your thinking, and your thinking but reflects the choice of what you want to see.” –A Course In Miracles We live in a world that operates much like an echo chamber. What goes ...

Negative expectations can worsen perceived pain more strongly—and for longer—than positive expectations can make it feel better, according to new research. The study, published recently as a Reviewed ...

In a well-known and often cited experiment, researchers at the University of California demonstrated that high expectations lead to improved performance while low expectations lead to poor performance ...

Human beings are predisposed to expect bad things to happen. We readily believe bad and negative reports about ourselves and about others more eagerly and easily than good. And everything we hear ...