Daniel Simons, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Walter Boot, Florida State University (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Daniel Simons, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Walter Boot, Florida State University

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University of Illinois psychology professor Daniel Simons (left) and Florida State University professor Walter Boot report that many psychological intervention studies that claim to benefit cognition may instead be capturing differences in expectations between those who receive the intervention and those who don't.

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L. Brian Stauffer / Walter Boot

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