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Imagine that you want to get fit in the New Year. Perhaps you have great faith in your body and you just know that you are going to feel great after each workout. If so, lucky you! The participants were first given a genetic test that identified different versions of the gene CREB1. The effects of these expectations were striking. The researchers noted a markedly similar effect when they looked at expectations of appetite.
Half the participants were told that they carried a beneficial variant of the FTO gene, which results in increased satiety after eating, while the other half were told they had a variant that would leave them feeling hungrier. Once again, the expectations shaped both their subjective feelings and physiological responses to a meal, such as the levels of Glucagon-like Peptide 1, which controls appetite by regulating the movements of the digestive system and by binding to brain receptors associated with energy balance.
We may not have taken a genetic test, but many other factors could create similar expectation effects. Our assumptions may be shaped, for example, by fitspiration posts on social media depicting practically unobtainable body types. An Australian study found that, far from being motivating, viewing those images before exercise put participants in a worse mood, and made the workouts feel physically more fatiguing Prichard et al. We can see similar expectation effects in many other domains, including sleep.
Multiple studies show that our estimations of how much sleep we get, relative to what we need, are often highly inaccurate. According to this theory, attempts to remain focused on our goals, and to resist temptation, depletes a limited resource — often assumed to be glucose — in the brain. Unless we allow ourselves time to rest and those resources recharge, our willpower will weaken and then break, leading us to give in to our urges.
We gorge on chocolate treats, procrastinate on social media rather than focusing on our work, and skip the gym to slob out in front of reality TV.
Yet recent research suggests that our self-control and mental focus can be swayed by our expectations, depending on whether we have a limited or non-limited mindset. As the name suggests, those with the limited mindset tended to assume that self-control and concentration can easily wear down.
Those with the non-limited view believe that their willpower can fuel itself. In a wide range of studies, Veronika Job at the University of Vienna has shown that these willpower mindsets can influence behaviours in a range of situations — from laboratory tests of mental focus to real-life academic studies and health regimes Job et al. To a certain extent, you have as much willpower as you think you have. This research — and many other findings like it — shows that we really are the product of the stories that we tell ourselves, and by changing that narrative, we may find it far easier to make positive changes to our lives.
As the heart surgery patients in Marburg had shown, this does not need to involve any form of deception. Indeed, there is some evidence simply learning about these expectation effects, and the scientific basis for them, can shift your mindset, at least in the short term i. Knowledge really is power. We can also use techniques, such as reappraisal, that are borrowed from cognitive behavioural therapy. Try to take the attitude of a scientist who is constantly testing their pre-conceptions, or a well-meaning friend who is offering honest encouragement.
Suppose that you are trying to get fit, and you have a generally dim view of your body and its capacity for exercise. The first step may be to question whether there is a strong factual basis for the underlying assumptions. Perhaps you absorbed the negative opinions from unpleasant experiences in PE that are no longer valid. Next, you might try to spot when negative thoughts and feelings come into your mind during your workout — and, where possible, reframe them.
Finally, you can keep a focus on your overall trajectory. Remember that even small improvements deserve to be celebrated, and that step by step, you are getting closer to your goal. Similar acts of reappraisal could help you to cope more effectively with your perceived sleep loss. If you feel like you have had a broken night, for instance, you might try to question whether you have exaggerated how long you were actually awake; often, a brief period of restlessness can seem like it lasts much longer than it really does.
To change your willpower mindset, meanwhile, you might try to cultivate a sense of autonomy. When we have chosen to do a task — rather than being forced — we tend to feel more energised Muraven, And it seems that simply recalling times that you have willingly exerted self-control can help to prime the non-limited beliefs, which may then help you to exert more willpower in the future Sieber et al.
These are just a few suggestions that come from our burgeoning understanding of expectation effects. They cannot work miracles by themselves, but they should make it far easier to adopt healthier behaviours and they should maximise the benefits from that hard work. In my own life, I try to test my pre-existing beliefs with small challenges that slowly take me outside of my comfort zone. If you have a strong sense that your current narratives are set in stone, then you might find it hard to question your beliefs and shift your mental habits.
But if you are willing to keep an open mind, and to question at least a few of the stories that you have told yourself, you may be pleasantly surprised by what brings. Treatments such as cognitive behavioural therapy are designed to help participants challenge unhealthy thoughts and attitudes that might be contributing to their anxiety or depression. Auer, C. Optimizing preoperative expectations leads to a shorter length of hospital stay in CABG patients. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 97 , 82—9.
Bernecker, K. Implicit theories about willpower in resisting temptations and emotion control. Colloca, L. Placebo and nocebo effects. New England Journal of Medicine, 6 , — Giles, G.
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