update: I don't think this example from Japan is in the book https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra...

The book also includes a summary at the end of every chapter, titled "How to think about ____." Here's one: The three women in this book are all very complicated and complex. I found them to be utterly riveting. They’re all morally grey which makes them feel more real and raw. Sometimes they make decisions that others may find irritating, but to me that makes they more dynamic. Let's start with the timeline in the blurb. It's supposed to be 'ten years later'. But Cate spends her early twenties in activism in Brighton. At thirty-three, she marries a man who impregnates her within three months of their meeting. Hannah is with her husband thirteen years by age of thirty-six. She appears to be thirty-six at the same time that Cate is thirty-three. Lissa is in a long-term relationship for about the same length of time. So Hope is saying that two women in their late twenties, who are both with partners about five or six years, move into a house-share instead? That can last - in the book's timeline - maybe one or two years, but this is their golden time? Expectation is a novel that explores the highs and lows of friendship. There are three main characters that we follow throughout the book. The three women used to be very good friends but now, due to several reasons, they have kind of drifted apart a little bit and nothing is how it used to be when they were younger. This book surely shows what happens when people take different paths in their life and how sometimes you can lose touch with the people you felt the closest with in the past. It's something that can totally happen and I think it was truthfully described. I must say that I expected a little bit more of female friendship from this book and in the end it was not what I found. The moments when they were together kind of fell flat to me. Well.You've had everything.The fruits of our labour.The fruits of our activism. Good God we got out there and we have changed the world for you.For our daughters.And what have you done with it?''David Robson opens by exploring the well established placebo effect and also introduces an associated concept I'd never heard of - the "nocebo effect" (actually experiencing drug side-effects like nausea, headaches etc. even though the person is aware they are only taking sugar pills). What's more the placebo effect even works when the patient knows they're taking a placebo. The linoleum is peeling and the carpets are stained, but these things don’t matter when a house is so loved. Some years ago, my Swiss doctor suggested that the first step to dealing with really bad adjustments to jetlag - it would take me weeks to recover - was to take melatonin. When I went to the pharmacy and asked for it, the girl serving said 'we only have homeopathic'. 'Oh, that's okay,' I said, thinking that it was a brand. I'd never heard of homeopathy before, and only when I got home did I discover that this meant there was nothing in it. Actually, it said in very big font on the label 2X, and apparently that meant I'd just bought two times nothing. That night come bedtime, I was really cross, drafting the letter of complaint to the pharmacy governance board. I should have been warned! But at the same time I thought well, I've paid for the darn bottle of these 'pills', I might as well take one. And I did. Then I laid in bed, irate, starting to imagine how I was going to lie there all night stark wide awake... when I fell asleep. Just like that. This is "the general frame of the novel". The term "love" is generic, applying it to both Pip's true love for Estella and the feelings Estella has for Drummle, which are based on a desire for social advancement. Similarly, Estella rejects Magwitch because of her contempt for everything that appears below what she believes to be her social status. [98] Great Expectations / Robert G Vignola [motion picture]". Performing Arts Database. The Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017 . Retrieved 2 December 2018.

The year is 2004 and they are living in a three-story Victorian townhouse on the edge of the best park in London fields. With Hannah trying to have a baby and Cate dealing with the fallout of having a baby, childless singleton Lissa is the only member of the main trio whose motivation has nothing to do with babies. In fact, she doesn't want to have a baby at all - it is revealed that she had an abortion at some point in the past, and she suspects that her own mother would have been happier without a daughter getting in the way of her goals. Mr Wopsle, clerk of the church in Pip's village. He later gives up the church work and moves to London to pursue his ambition to be an actor, adopting the stage name "Mr Waldengarver". He sees the other convict in the audience of one of his performances, attended also by Pip. What is going on there? Robson unravels the "stereotype embodiment theory," which is basically what you might think it is. Often, people become aligned with the expectations they have of themselves, their health, and their lives - be it for good, or for bad.Yes, I know, it's only an anecdote. But when I started reading about the astonishingly scary way that the brain gets on with the body, not only inadvertently passing on false information, but even deliberately, I could see how this might have worked even if I didn't believe in it. Maybe at some level my brain was able to ignore my conscious reasoning and said to my body, sleep treatment taken, let's go. Holy Toledo if stuff like that happens.... Hope leaves no aspect of everyday existence untouched. My only complaint is that I did not know the characters as well as I would have liked. They stray occasionally into the archetypal, especially in terms of their own personal conflicts. The novel encapsulates much in scope – not quite so much in depth. In this award-winning book, David Robson takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge research that reveals the many profound ways that our expectations shape our experience. Bringing together fascinating case studies and evidence-based science, The Expectation Effect uncovers new techniques that we can all use to improve our fitness, productivity, intelligence, health and happiness. Great Expectations – a BBC television serial starring Gary Bond as Pip and Francesca Annis. BBC issued the series on DVD in 2017. [176] What exactly was going on here?? Robson unfolds the thesis of the book. Incredibly, due largely to people's inborn pro-social neural "mirroring," coupled with the brain's predictor effects, these otherwise healthy people suddenly died.

Illustrations by John McLenan for Great Expectations". Archived from the original on 11 January 2012 . Retrieved 4 September 2012.Beginning in the late 1970s, the US Centers for Disease Control began to receive reports that a worrying number of recent Laotian immigrants were dying in their sleep. They were almost all male, aged between their mid-20s and mid-40s, and most were from the persecuted Hmong ethnic group, who had fled Laos after the rise to power of the communist political movement Pathet Lao. For their loved ones, the only warning was the sound of them struggling for breath and, occasionally, a gasp, a moan, or a cry. By the time help arrived, however, they were already dead..." Eaton, Michael (11 March 2016). "Great Expectations". West Yorkshire Playhouse. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016 . Retrieved 11 March 2016. Expectation, published in 2019, was called ‘devastatingly perceptive and emotionally wise’ by The Guardian. It is being adapted for the screen by Clemence Poesy and Haut et Court films in Paris. In another bit of incredibly-interesting writing, Robson talks about mindset, expectations, and health. He writes: Julian Moynahan (1960), "The Hero's Guilt, The Case of Great Expectations", Essays in Criticism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.60–79