placebo – Reflectd

The Nocebo Effect: When Negative Expectations About a Treatment Result in Real Negative Outcomes

Simon Moesgaard January 31, 2023 February 2, 2023

This article is about studies on the nocebo effect – the opposite of the placebo effect (which I have also written about – read more here). The nocebo effect is an expectation about negative treatment outcomes which …

The Placebo Effect: How Expectations Produce Real Effects

Simon Moesgaard August 14, 2013 May 31, 2021

According to Gibbs (2010), placebos are interventions that do not have a true treatment effect on the symptom or disease for which they are used. An important aspect is that people think they receive a true treatment.