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“Our brains can’t help but look forward. We spend very little of our mental lives completely in the here and now. Indeed, the power of expectations is so pervasive that we may notice only when somebody pulls back the curtain to reveal a few of the cogs and levers responsible for the big show.” We all know expectations matter—in school, in sports, in the stock market. From a healing placebo to a run on the bank, hints of their self-fulfilling potential have been observed for years. But now researchers in fields ranging from medicine to education to criminal justice are moving beyond observation to investigate exactly how expectations work—and when they don’t. In Mind Over Mind, journalist Chris Berdik offers a captivating look at the frontiers of expectations research, revealing how our brains work in the future tense and how our assumptions—about the next few milliseconds or the next few years—bend reality.
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Chris grew up in Pittsburgh, but has lived most of his adult life in Boston. He is a freelance science journalist and a former staff editor at the Atlantic Monthly and Mother Jones. His work has appeared in New Scientist magazine, Salon, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. His radio and multimedia pieces have appeared on Smithsonian. Com, WBUR (Boston's NPR affiliate) , and Sciencestage. com. Mind Over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations (Current, 2012) is his first book. Interested in an author talk or reading? Go here:
