Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine2017
Expectations affect psychological and neurophysiological benefits even after a single bout of exercise.
Trial report in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Effects of open-label placebos in clinical trials: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2021Pooled it
- Let's walk! Age reattribution and physical activity among older Hispanic/Latino adults: results from the ¡Caminemos! Randomized trial.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- The association between physical activity, self-efficacy, stress self-management and mental health among adolescents.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Article
- The Placebo Effect in Exercise and Mental Health Research.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2024Review
- The Interplay Between Expected Psychological Responses to Exercise and Physical Activity in Analogue Generalized Anxiety Disorder: a Cross-sectional Study.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Article
- Influence of motivational placebo-related factors on the effects of exercise treatment in depressive adolescents.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Article
- Influence of Physical Exercise on Psychological Well-Being of Young Adults: A Quantitative Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Single Session and Short-Term Exercise for Mental Health Promotion in Tertiary Students: A Scoping Review.Sports medicine - open · 2021Article
- Poor reporting of physical activity and exercise interventions in youth mental health trials: A brief report.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Continuity and Discontinuity of Sport and Exercise Type During the COVID-19 Pandemic. An Exploratory Study of Effects on Mood.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Reconceptualizing the measurement of expectations to better understand placebo and nocebo effects in psychological responses to exercise.European journal of sport science · 2020Article
- Advancing the understanding of placebo effects in psychological outcomes of exercise: Lessons learned and future directions.European journal of sport science · 2020Review
- Adolescents' personal beliefs about sufficient physical activity are more closely related to sleep and psychological functioning than self-reported physical activity: A prospective study.Journal of sport and health science · 2019Article
- The neurobiology of placebo effects in sports: EEG frontal alpha asymmetry increases in response to a placebo ergogenic aid.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Periodization Theory: Confronting an Inconvenient Truth.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Article
- Thinking While Moving or Moving While Thinking - Concepts of Motor-Cognitive Training for Cognitive Performance Enhancement.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2018Article
- Expectations affect psychological and neurophysiological benefits even after a single bout of exercise: on the importance of considering induced negative expectations.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- The Role of Physical Activity Enjoyment on the Acute Mood Experience of Exercise among Smokers with Elevated Depressive Symptoms.Mental health and physical activity · 2017Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The study investigated whether typical psychological, physiological, and neurophysiological changes from a single exercise are affected by one's beliefs and expectations. Seventy-six participants were randomly assigned to four groups and saw different multimedia presentations suggesting that the subsequent exercise (moderate 30 min cycling) would result in more or less health benefits (induced expectations). Additionally, we assessed habitual expectations reflecting previous experience and beliefs regarding exercise benefits. Participants with more positive habitual expectations consistently demonstrated both greater psychological benefits (more enjoyment, mood increase, and anxiety reduction) and greater increase of alpha-2 power, assessed with electroencephalography. Manipulating participants' expectations also resulted in largely greater increases of alpha-2 power, but not in more psychological exercise benefits. On the physiological level, participants decreased their blood pressure after exercising, but this was independent of their expectations. These results indicate that habitual expectations in particular affect exercise-induced psychological and neurophysiological changes in a self-fulfilling manner.
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