Frank says that, partly, "our expectations also play a role in how drugs or alcohol affect us", and that "one person might have certain expectations for what alcohol or drugs might do for them, and another might have completely different ideas, and those ideas, expectations or 'cognitions' might actually influence and predict what experience or result we get in a self-fulfilling way".
What ideas, expectations and feelings did you have prior to the digital rectal examination training course?
"We've sort of colonized people with our ideas and expectations," he said.
The core institutions, ideas and expectations that shaped American life for the sixty years after the New Deal don't work anymore.
I left for Valencia with few preconceived ideas or expectations - mainly owing to my inability to plan or prepare for anything in advance, particularly where travel is concerned.
Many expatriate South Africans are streaming back with new ideas and expectations, and foreigners with a taste for high life at low cost have come with them.
"At least in New York these are not radically new ideas and expectations, but the timelines are tough," said Frank Fox, coordinator of administrative support in New York State's Department of Education.
Instead, each new piece of data causes a rethinking of your previous ideas, your expectations for future results, and your thoughts about what the interesting and important parts of the project really are.
Mead labels the "institutions, ideas and expectations" of contemporary liberalism the "blue model": In the old system, most blue-collar and white-collar workers held stable, lifetime jobs with defined benefit pensions, and a career civil service administered a growing state as living standards for all social classes steadily rose.
But Mr. Bemporad, whose father is a rabbi, also recalls his friend at the Bemporad dinner table, taking part in discussions of "political issues or current events or just ideas and expectations for our own lives, and how to be human beings in the world".
Richardson, who is against the removal of the Rhodes statue, speaks at a time when the role of universities is under sustained challenge from a generation of students who have different ideas and expectations of what an education should and should not entail.
