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
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Examples of placebo effect
placebo effect
Also, there's a huge placebo effect with treatment of cough and the common cold.
From the dallasnews.com
Many claim that the placebo effect is a critical component of clinical practice.
From the sciencedaily.com
The placebo effect is arguably the most underrated discovery of modern medicine.
From the scienceblogs.com
It found no evidence that such treatments work beyond providing a placebo effect.
From the newscientist.com
Jon-Kar Zubieta, the paper's senior author and an expert on the placebo effect.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Pharmaceutical companies have struggled for decades to beat the placebo effect.
From the psychcentral.com
One key to an entirely new kind of medicine is suggested by the placebo effect.
From the huffingtonpost.com
To eliminate the placebo effect, the patients were not told of the experiment.
From the time.com
Any benefit that comes from homeopathy should be attributed to the placebo effect.
From the guardian.co.uk
