The Expectation Effect

David Robson (2022)

88%

of reader questions named this book

2.43

average position when named

7/8

questions it appeared in

The questions it was named for

Each of these is a question a reader might ask an AI assistant, written from the subject of the book without reference to its title. The books listed underneath are the ones named in the same answer.

What are the best books on how your mindset affects your physical health?

Named at position 1

1. The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World - David Robson
2. Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body - Jo Marchant
3. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers - Robert M. Sapolsky
4. Cured: The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing - Jeffrey Rediger
5. Mind Over Medicine - Lissa Rankin

I want to understand the science behind the placebo effect - any book recommendations?

Named at position 3

1. Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal - Erik Vance
2. Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body - Jo Marchant
3. The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World - David Robson
4. Placebo Effects: Understanding the Mechanisms in Health and Disease - Fabrizio Benedetti

I keep assuming things will go badly and then they do. What should I read?

Named at position 4

1. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life - Martin E. P. Seligman
2. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy - David D. Burns
3. Mind Over Mood - Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky
4. The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World - David Robson

Is there a book that explains how beliefs about aging actually change how you age?

Named at position 3

1. Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live - Becca Levy
2. Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility - Ellen J. Langer
3. The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World - David Robson

Looking for something evidence-based on self-fulfilling prophecies, not fluffy manifestation stuff

Named at position 1

1. The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World - David Robson
2. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life - Martin E. P. Seligman
3. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck
4. Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body - Jo Marchant
5. Pygmalion in the Classroom - Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson

Books about how what you expect from sleep, food or exercise changes the results you get?

Named at position 1

1. The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World - David Robson
2. Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility - Ellen J. Langer
3. Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body - Jo Marchant

I want to stop sabotaging myself with negative expectations before big events - reading suggestions?

Named at position 4

1. The Inner Game of Tennis - W. Timothy Gallwey
2. Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It - Ethan Kross
3. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life - Martin E. P. Seligman
4. The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World - David Robson
5. Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence - Gary Mack

What this measures

This is one reading, taken on 2026-07-30, of whether an AI assistant names this book when asked about its subject. It is not a judgement of the book. It measures how present the book is in what the assistant has read.

Across all 100 books we tested, the average was 51% and 23 were never named at all. See the full index.

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