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5 Conclusion
Pages 65-66

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... The decision of whether to pursue these programs depends in part on the cost of the program compared to the cost of us ing a program specifically designed to enhance expectations. It also depends on how well the expectancy effects generalize from the laboratory to applied contexts, a question that needs to be addressed empirically.
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... 66 of these areas are not likely to be made by proponents of an area who are so convinced of the utility of a technique that they do not entertain the possibility of negative results, or by critics who are so convinced that a phenomenon does not exist that they do not accept positive results. We support the spirit of the meta-analytic approach, an approach that says "show me the data" and does not make premature judgments either about "what is surely true" or about "what cannot possibly be e t'
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