Hi Hi qanda4me,
The following are examples of the power of belief. These are all
excerpts for your convenience, so I suggest you read the articles in
their entirety. Some of these articles are in pdf format so you will
Adobe Acrobat to access them.
"Bandura has an excellent treatment of the importance of self-efficacy
in organizational decision-making. Essentially, he cites studies
supporting the vital roleof leaders? personal efficacy in the
processes of decision-making in organizations. He laments the
methodological difficulties of the studies that have been done. He,
and others, devised an experiment that permitted the assessment of the
importance of belief in the performance of all members of an
organization. One group of individuals was told that the skills
involved in the successful performance of carrying out the decisions
in the study were inherent, while another group was told that the
outcome of their efforts was essentially under their control. The
latter group performed significantly better than the former, thus
demonstrating the power of belief transmitted through a highly
efficacious manager to other members of the organization, who in turn
behaved in an efficacious manner."
The Pacific Institute: Self-Efficacy-The Exercise of Control By Dr. Albert Bandura
http://www.pac-inst.com/Library/letter/98-01.pdf.
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"The power of beliefs in the classroom is well illustrated by the
story of a group of children who were tested and found to be average
learners. The group was then subdivided into two random subgroups. One
subgroup had a teacher who was told that the pupils he was taking were
?gifted?. The teacher of the other subgroup was told that his pupils
were ?slow learners?. The assessment of the two groups at the end of
the year showed that the majority of the group which had been
arbitrarily named as ?gifted? obtained higher scores than they had
previously, while the majority of the supposed ?slow learners? scored
lower then they had before. One conclusion we can draw from this
experiment is that the majority of children in the two subgroups
conformed to the beliefs their teachers had about them, not to their
real capabilities. This is a startling example of the power of the
educator?s beliefs to enable or disable their students because the
educator?s belief became the student?s reality."
Education and Beliefs By Maite Galan and Tom Maguire
http://www.xtec.es/~jmaguire/articles/Education%20and%20Beliefs.pdf.
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"...The second study to be reviewed was performed in the United States
in 1950, about ten years prior to the Japanese study. In this study a
bold experiment was performed, one that might not be allowed today
because it involved lying to the participants. The author of the
study, Dr Wolf, gave a group of women a toxic substance called syrup
of ipecac that causes nausea and vomiting. He lied to the women,
however, telling them it was actually a drug that would cure nausea
and vomiting. The women in the study were already suffering from
chronic nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, and so they gladly took the
syrup of ipecac. In most cases their symptoms ceased entirely.
Objective evidence of their improvement was also measured by Dr. Wolf,
who had the patients swallow small tubes to measure the amount of
muscle contractions in the stomach, contractions that occur with the
heaving which occure when one vomits. After taking the toxin, the
contractions subsided. This second study shows that, at least in the
short term, a drug that is highly toxic can actually cure the very
subjective and objective symptoms that it normally causes - if the
power of belief is working in it's favor."
Virus Myth: Aids and the Voodoo By Matt Irwin
http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/mivoodoo.htm
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"In the study, all students at an elementary school were given an
intelligence test. Then 20 percent of the students were chosen at
random, without respect to their grades on the test. These students
were reported to their teachers as showing ?unusual potential for
intellectual growth,? and about to ?bloom? in academic performance.
At the end of the school year, all students were again tested. Those
who had been labeled as ?intelligent? showed significantly better
performance on the second test than the rest of the children. In the
authors? words, ?the change in the teachers? expectations...had led to
an actual change in the intellectual performance of these randomly
selected children.?
The study met with a great deal of disbelief, especially among
teachers, but the experiment was repeated many times with similar
results. Later studies done with college students ? and then even with
rodents ? showed the same effect.
In the animal experiment, a group of psychology students were given
rats to train in running mazes. Half of the students were told that
their rats were genetically ?maze-bright? and could learn to run a
maze quickly, while the other half were told that their rats were
?maze-dull.? Actually, all of the rats were quite ordinary, neither
bright nor dull. However, those rats believed by the students to be
unusually bright learned to run the maze significantly faster than the
rats believed to be dull."
We are All Pygmalions By Cora Scott
http://www.saskworld.com/bodymindspirit/edition16/20_article_cora.htm
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"What follows is recent research additionally supporting the power of
"belief." Jane Ogden, Ph.D., a health psychologist at Guys Kings and
St. Thomas' School of Medicine in London, studied groups of women,
those who successfully lost weight and kept it off and those who
didn't. She found two interesting points. First, the women who
believed their weight problem was a function of their behavior, as in
their eating and exercise habits, and not a result of external factors
such as genes or metabolism, were "more successful at losing pounds
because they believed that they were in control of their weight ? and,
therefore, believed they could lose weight." So, if you first take
responsibility and believe that your behavior has led you to be
overweight, then, if you believe that it is in your power to change
that behavior, you can succeed."
Google's cache of ABC News:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/HealthyWoman/GMAWeight_FlipTheSwitchExcerpt040414.html
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"A recent study reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)
showed that over 7 in 10 people with asthma given an inhaler filled
with water had their asthma attacks stopped. The people with asthma
didn?t know that the inhaler had water of course. They were certain it
was the same medicine they had been using for years. The certainty is
the element in the mind/body response that we need to utilize for
maximum results in all forms of healing."
Meet My Good Friend, Placebo By Kevin Hogan
http://www.hollys.com/success-dynamics/placebo.htm
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This may be of interest to you:
ABC News: The Power Of Belief
http://p2.hostingprod.com/@worldwidescam.com/abcbeliefs.htm
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