Pages Tagged with #expectation

The Placebo Effect and the Positive Power of the Mind on Health, in the following sections:

• The Placebo Effect and the Positive Power of the Mind on Health: 1.1. The Suppressing of Pain by the Prefrontal Cortex
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Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths, in the following sections:

• Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths: 2.1. Perception is Influenced By Expectation: You Can't Always Trust Your Senses
• Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths: 4. The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind

The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind: How Other Peoples' Experience Contradict Our Own Beliefs, in the following sections:

• The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind: How Other Peoples' Experience Contradict Our Own Beliefs: 1. Introduction
• The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind: How Other Peoples' Experience Contradict Our Own Beliefs: 5.4. Out of Body Experiences, Soul Travel and Astral Projection

The Nocebo Effect: Negative Psychological Effects of the Mind on the Body: 2. The Negative Effects of Suggestion and Expectation

Out of Body Experiences (OBEs): Astral Projection or Soul Travelling?

Hallucinations, Sensory Deprivation and Fasting: The Physiological Causes of Religious and Mystical Experiences: 1. People Have False Experiences

Does Homeopathy Work? What are the Risks and Dangers?: 6. So What is This 'Placebo Effect' Which Makes Homeopathy Seem Effective?

Eckankar: The Religion of the Light and Sound of God, The Ancient Science of Soul Travel: 6. Soul Travel (Astral Projection)

Pseudoscience and Health: The World of Alternatives (to Truth): 3.1. The Placebo Effect and the Positive Effects of Delusion

Souls do not Exist: Evidence from Science & Philosophy Against Mind-Body Dualism: 4.3. Out of Body Experiences (OBEs)

Experiences of God are Illusions, Derived from Malfunctioning Psychological Processes: 1. People Have False Experiences

Psychosomosis - the Placebo and Nocebo Effects: Curing and Causing Disease with the Mind: 2. The Placebo Effect and the Positive Effects of Mental Attitudes

Critical Thinking on Acupuncture: How Does it Work?: 4. The Placebo Effect