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Examining the ‘Cosmetics Placebo Effect’ [PDF]

PLoS One, 2019
Previous studies have found a positive effect of cosmetics on certain behavioral measures, such as the tip given to waitresses by male patrons. These studies have employed confederates who usually wear cosmetics.
Batres, Carlota, DeAngelis, Caroline G., Kramer, Sarah S., Russell, Richard   +3 more
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Placebo Effect [PDF]

The Scientific World Journal, 2000
Nature and Science ran completely different news line-ups this week. But their lead stories agreed on one thing: patients matter. Nature led with a story about a group of patients who will share in a patent after giving blood and tissue samples to ...
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What Is the Role of the Placebo Effect for Pain Relief in Neurorehabilitation? Clinical Implications From the Italian Consensus Conference on Pain in Neurorehabilitation

Frontiers in Neurology, 2018
BackgroundIt is increasingly acknowledged that the outcomes of medical treatments are influenced by the context of the clinical encounter through the mechanisms of the placebo effect. The phenomenon of placebo analgesia might be exploited to maximize the
Gianluca Castelnuovo, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Emanuele Maria Giusti, Emanuele Maria Giusti, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Donatella Saviola, Samantha Gabrielli, Marco Lacerenza, Giada Pietrabissa, Giada Pietrabissa, Roberto Cattivelli, Roberto Cattivelli, Chiara Anna Maria Spatola, Chiara Anna Maria Spatola, Alessandro Rossi, Giorgia Varallo, Margherita Novelli, Valentina Villa, Francesca Luzzati, Andrea Cottini, Carlo Lai, Eleonora Volpato, Eleonora Volpato, Cesare Cavalera, Francesco Pagnini, Francesco Pagnini, Valentina Tesio, Lorys Castelli, Mario Tavola, Riccardo Torta, Marco Arreghini, Loredana Zanini, Amelia Brunani, Ionathan Seitanidis, Giuseppe Ventura, Paolo Capodaglio, Guido Edoardo D’Aniello, Guido Edoardo D’Aniello, Federica Scarpina, Andrea Brioschi, Matteo Bigoni, Lorenzo Priano, Lorenzo Priano, Alessandro Mauro, Alessandro Mauro, Giuseppe Riva, Giuseppe Riva, Daniele Di Lernia, Claudia Repetto, Camillo Regalia, Enrico Molinari, Enrico Molinari, Paolo Notaro, Stefano Paolucci, Giorgio Sandrini, Giorgio Sandrini, Susan Simpson, Susan Simpson, Brenda Kay Wiederhold, Santino Gaudio, Jeffrey B. Jackson, Stefano Tamburin, Fabrizio Benedetti   +63 more
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The Placebo Effect of Artificial Intelligence in Human–Computer Interaction [PDF]

ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2022
In medicine, patients can obtain real benefits from a sham treatment. These benefits are known as the placebo effect. We report two experiments (Experiment I: N = 369; Experiment II: N = 100) demonstrating a placebo effect in adaptive interfaces ...
T. Kosch, Robin Welsch, L. Chuang, Albrecht Schmidt   +3 more
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LISTENING TO THE PLACEBO, OR HOW TO FIND OUT WHY TREATMENTS WORK [PDF]

Papeles del Psicólogo, 2020
The placebo effect is powerful and has been proved effective in multiple studies, competing even with well-established treatments. It is absolutely not an unspecific or inert effect.
Miguel A. Vallejo Pareja, Laura Vallejo-Slocker   +1 more
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To sense or dissent

Global Rheumatology, 2023
Interested in the therapeutic response that I usually predict in my chronically ill patients, I bring to the fore a phenomenon that is enigmatic in itself: the placebo effect.
Alberto Palacios-Boix
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Placebo response and effect in randomized clinical trials: meta-research with focus on contextual effects

Trials, 2021
Background Contextual effects (i.e., placebo response) refer to all health changes resulting from administering an apparently inactive treatment. In a randomized clinical trial (RCT), the overall treatment effect (i.e., the post-treatment effect in the ...
Sigurlaug H. Hafliðadóttir, Carsten B. Juhl, Sabrina M. Nielsen, Marius Henriksen, Ian A. Harris, Henning Bliddal, Robin Christensen   +6 more
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European Headache Federation recommendations for placebo and nocebo terminology

The Journal of Headache and Pain, 2020
Background and aim Despite recent publications, practitioners remain unfamiliar with the current terminology related to the placebo and nocebo phenomena observed in clinical trials and practice, nor with the factors that modulate them.
Dimos D. Mitsikostas, Charlotte Blease, Elisa Carlino, Luana Colloca, Andrew L. Geers, Jeremy Howick, Andrea W. M. Evers, Magne A. Flaten, John M. Kelley, Irving Kirsch, Regine Klinger, Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink, Daniel E. Moerman, Petros P. Sfikakis, Lene Vase, Tor D. Wager, Fabrizio Benedetti, on behalf of the European Headache Federation   +17 more
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Influence on study outcomes of an inpatient study by the behavior of the study staff (PINgPOng): study protocol for a randomized clinical trial

Trials, 2022
Background The placebo effect as the symptom improvement following inert treatments is a fixed component of RCTs to differentiate between specific effects of the tested pharmacological substance from other unspecific effects.
Martin Coenen, Ulrike Bingel, Matthias Zunhammer, Maria Soledad Berdaguer, Christine Fuhrmann, Rolf Fimmers, Jens Rengelshausen, Gunther Hartmann, Manfred Schedlowski, Christoph Coch   +9 more
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Placebo effect of acupuncture on insomnia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Annals of Palliative Medicine, 2020
BACKGROUND Acupuncture is a common alternative therapy for clinical treatment of insomnia. As the underlying mechanism is yet unclear, its efficacy is often considered as placebo effect. To clarify whether acupuncture treatment of insomnia is only due to
Chengyong Liu, Hanqing Xi, Wenzhong Wu, Xiao-qiu Wang, Shan Qin, Ya-nan Zhao, Shi-yu Zheng, Qingyun Wan, Liang Xu   +8 more
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