NOUN
- any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
How To Use placebo effect In A Sentence
- PHILIPS: Well, I think there is what we call a placebo effect. CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2005
- Maybe I don't but there needs to be work done even if just to prove that the Placebo effect is in operation.
- This implies that our findings perhaps cannot be explained purely in terms of the placebo effect.
- If a curative effect doesn't show up in double-blind tests, then you're mainly talking about the placebo effect, in any case.
- Any effects of rhino horn are almost certainly placebo effects, of which scarcity, improbability, and high cost play a part.
- Section Four, ‘Essays and Commentaries,’ examines aromatherapy and essential oils and homeopathy, the placebo effect, and herbs as a token and nocebos.
- Most doctors are aware of placebos and the placebo effect, but probably few have given the subject any serious thought.
- She was only given a placebo, but she claimed she got better - that's the placebo effect.
- Note the cautious phraseology, which implies that these could have nothing more than a placebo effect: if you think a treatment is doing you good, then you may well perk up a bit anyway.
- a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects
