placebo effect
a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
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How to use placebo effect in a sentence
Even if it’s just the placebo effect, well, that can be incredibly powerful, and if it works for you, keep doing it.
On the whole, ice baths do seem to provide a reduction in associated pain, but the amount it does so might not be any better than the placebo effect.
The apparent benefits of the baking treatment may have partly been due to a placebo effect.
It’s a variation on the placebo effect—your outlook on life literally influences the one you’re living.
Participants reported lower pain intensity from the heat on the “lidocaine” patch of skin, an expected placebo effect.
Mild zaps to the brain can boost a pain-relieving placebo effect | Jackie Rocheleau | May 7, 2021 | Science News
There is some scientific merit to some alternative modalities, such as the well-documented placebo effect.
Nobody conceived of a thing like the placebo effect or researcher bias —none of these notions had been worked out yet.
Following Tuberculosis From Death Sentence to Cure | Tessa Miller | April 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe second is the placebo effect, which will often cause anything presented as medication to “work.”
“If this is all some twisted placebo effect, I don't give a damn,” Robertson says.
The placebo effect has become increasingly interesting to psychological as well as medical researchers.
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British Dictionary definitions for placebo effect
med a positive therapeutic effect claimed by a patient after receiving a placebo believed by him to be an active drug: See control group
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