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 ...

F1 drivers are known for their superstitions – but do they have any affect on performance? We find out. In Formula One, drivers rely on their natural ability and skills that are honed through years of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...