How Expectancies Shape Experience
Published on 1. January 1999
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-1-55798-586-6 (ISBN)
Description
How does one explain the power of placebo effects in medication and psychotherapy research? Why do people with medical illnesses who strongly anticipate getting better really do? Response expectancies, those unconscious subjective expectations about substances, processes and social stimuli, actually effect autonomic functioning and may be the key to how we ultimately understand the biochemistry of hope. This volume brings together scientists who have studied this effect in human function and dysfunction in the 1990s and practitioners who have applied these findings to enhance the effectiveness of both pharmacological and psychological treatment. They have extended understanding of how response expectancies account for symptom maintenance, motivation and change in such diverse areas as asthma, substance abuse, sexual dysfunction and smoking. Their often surprising findings point to expectancy modification as a key to enhancing effectiveness of treatment and prevention across settings and theoretical orientations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55798-586-6 (9781557985866)
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Content
Expectations and the Social Cognitive Perspective - Basic Principles, Processes and Variables, James E. Maddux; Expectancy Operation - Cognitive/Neural Models and Architecture, Mark S. Goldman; Mood-Related Expectancy, Emotional Experience and Coping Behaviour, Salvatore J. Catanzaro and Jack Mearns; Expectancies and Memory - Inferring the Past From What We Know Must Have Been, Edward R. Hirt et al; Expectancy and Fear, Nancy Schoenberger; Expectation and Desire in Pain and Pain Reduction, Donald Price and James J. Barrell; Response Expectancy and Sexual Dysfunction, Eileen M. Palace; Expectancy and Asthma, Samantha C. Sodergren and Michael E. Hyland; Expectancy and Behavioural Effects of Social Used Drugs, M. Vogel-Sprott and M. Filmore; Expectancy Meditation of Biopsychosocial Risk for Alcohol Use and Alcoholism, Mark S. Goldman et al; Expectancies for Tobacco Smoking, Thomas H. Brandon et al; Listening to Prozac But Hearing Placebo - a Meta-Analysis of Antidepressant Medication, Irving Kirsch and Guy Sapirstein; Is the Placebo Effect Dependent on Time? a Meta-Analysis, Harald Walach and Catharina Maidof; Expectations of Sickness and Symptoms - Concept and Evidence of the Nocebo Phenomenon, Robert A. Hahn; Expectancies - the Ignored Common Factor in Psychotherapy, Joel Weinberger and Andrews Eig; Hypnosis and Response Expectancies.