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#456 - David Robson - The Psychological Power Of Expectations
Modern Wisdom
Do You Know What the Expectation Effect Is?
Knowing about the expectation effect can actually make it more powerful in some way. In study from portugal, they were looking at people with chronic pain. They gave them these pills, and an explanation of the expectation effect. And then five days later, they had seen a reduction in their symptoms. Already there was about 30 % m on the conof standard score of pain. So that's the clinical threshold for any new treatment. You have to have a 30% reduction. But if i had chronic pain, i probably would take, i open label plac pos badge.
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