placebo effect
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- noun
- /pləˈsiːboʊ ɪˈfɛkt/
- Specialized
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efecto placebo
- Many patients experience significant pain relief due to the placebo effect, demonstrating the power of belief in healing.
So that should be sort of your mindset that you can use the placebo effect to your advantage.
- So that should be sort of your mindset that you can use the placebo effect to your advantage.
- How we think does matter when it comes to immunity and the placebo effect is real.
- But what perhaps is even Wilder is the more invasive A placebo intervention is, the greater the placebo effect.
- So use something which is either maybe which has no real effect itself or some of which can offer like a placebo effect.
- And so people think that if I say something might be a placebo effect, that what I'm saying is that their brain is lying to them and they don't actually have that feeling.
- I understand that, but I'm saying it could be placebo effect, but you should try it.
- And that could just be placebo effect.
- Tell us afresh what a placebo effect is.
- So some of that's a placebo effect, sure, but but don't you feel a little like warm and tired?
Examples
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Any effect is a placebo effect.
Fiction book (1997) -
In addition, the significant psychological component of disease prevention and cure—the placebo effect—must be taken into account.
Academic text (1997) -
It's called the placebo effect.
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I suppose it has a lot to do with the placebo effect.
Blog text (1) -
What does work is the placebo effect and the order effect.
Blog text (6) -
So that should be sort of your mindset that you can use the placebo effect to your advantage.
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How we think does matter when it comes to immunity and the placebo effect is real.
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We've all heard of the placebo effect in medicine, but you take this idea even further.
Blog text (17) -
Well-designed studies can distinguish the pharmacologic effect of a drug from the placebo effect.
Blog text (32) -
Chief among these is the placebo effect, which is not adequately addressed in the pharmacological literature.
Academic text (1995)
How Strong
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'placebo' (an inert treatment) + 'effect' (a change produced), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes an effect produced by a placebo. While the mechanistic detail that the change is due to patients' belief is additional information, the core sense is compositional and cross-linguistically recognizable, making it transparent to learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
The noun placebo effect comes from the practice of giving a patient a fake medicine, often a sugar pill called a placebo, to see whether belief in a treatment can change how they feel. Many patients then felt better just because they believed the medicine would help, so the phrase now means an improvement that comes from 'belief' rather than the medicine itself.