The Invisible Scar: How Your Beliefs Shape Your Reality Dear Reader, Did you know that simply believing you have a scar can affect people’s reactions to you almost as much as if the scar were actually there? In a famous psychology experiment, participants were told they were being evaluated on how well they could describe a story. But the real experiment was something else entirely. Before the study began, researchers applied realistic “scar” makeup to each participant’s face. They were shown…