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Research: Expectations Can Help Healing

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[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

I think it's odd they reference "healing" in the title, but mostly it's about pain control, not healing, in regard to the placebo/expectation effect.

I've also read about contradicting studies that show that a positive attitude does NOT impact your chances of surviving cancer or other life-threatening diseases, like this one:

http://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/517348.html

Sometimes, angry, depressed people do just as well as overly-optimistic, hopeful types in overcoming potentially deadly conditions. See THIS article:

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/SB108120208961374696.htm