Somebody from Behavioural Economics has actually shown a nocebo effect for something with genuine positive health effects when people tought it was an ultra cheap version.
The story of that is in one of the Freakonomics books.
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katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
The funny thing is that the “extra strength” placebos likely have a better chance of working. The more elaborate and involved the placebo is, the greater the chance of it actually working even if you know it is a placebo. Our minds are weird. As always, I’m too lazy to look up the actual study so I don’t know if it was a quality study or not.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
variants@possumpat.io 5 months ago
But you also might get more nocebos where you get negative effects from the placebo
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Trick yourself better you rube.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Gaslight yourself to health
melooone@feddit.de 5 months ago
This reminded me of an episode of Mind Field, which shows significant improvent in cases of ADHD, Migraines, and a skin picking disorder in kids just through the placebo effect.
They use elaborate set ups and suggestions like a turned off MRI machine, fake nurses and doctors in lab coats, etc. And the kids are actually told, that it’s their brain doing the healing, not the machine.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I believe it’s red placebos that are better at helping with pain.
The brain is a fucky old thing.
Duranie@literature.cafe 5 months ago
It’s been a while since I looked at this, but different color pills “work” better for different ailments. Also the size and numbers of pills effect results as well. Two pills are “stronger” than one, bigger pills over smaller as well.
jlow@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Yeah, I heard that the placebo effect for pain meds is stronger in the US (than in Europe?) because there’s more advertisment for it in the US (how they made sure this is causation and not correlation I have no idea, though …)
agentshags@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The important thing is that you believe there was a study ;p
katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Yeah, I haven’t read the study of course. Only read about it. Which makes the claim above even more dubious. But hey, this is the future, who has the time to fact check anymore?
Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
If you only read about it that gives it 50% chance at best at being true. Luckily I also read about it, so together that makes it 100% true.
katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Math checks out.
tja@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
You could ask an AI, maybe they’ll invent a source for you