F1 drivers are known for their superstitions – but do they have any affect on performance? We find out. In Formula One, ...

Microdosing might not work the way we think—but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. Here’s what science and the placebo effect ...

A recent study published in the British Medical Journal has shown that even when patients know they're taking a placebo, the ...

Our data confirm that, although significant placebo and nocebo effects were found on days 1 and 8, the nocebo effect was consistently stronger. Both effects were primarily influenced by the most ...

The placebo effect is a mysterious phenomenon that happens when someone’s medical symptoms are lessened through the power of suggestion and expectation – for instance if someone’s illness ...

For Kelley—a frustrated humanist in the increasingly biomedical field of psychology—the placebo effect challenges our narrow focus on pills. “I was in grad school training as a ...

a professor of psychology at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland, who led the study. It included that “placebos are powerful, that placebo effects are prevalent in PMS, that placebo ...

A placebo is often thought of in terms of a sugar pill but it essentially refers to any treatment or intervention that in itself has no biological effect - e.g. a saline injection or even ...

"Nothing" can help This premise was the starting point for a study by the Faculty of Psychology ... effects," says Jens Gaab, highlighting some of the benefits. At the same time, the placebo ...