You Are Not So Smart Podcast - Oreo White Chocolate Cookies

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You can send your recipes to David at you arenotsosmart.com. And if I pick and bake and eat your recipe, you get a signed copy of the You Are Not So Smart book. Now this week, the recipe comes from Natalie Sun. She says in this cookie called Oreo White Chocolate Cookies. It's softened butter, brown sugar, white sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, salt, soda, baking soda,. That is white chocolate chips, and chopped up Oreos, an Oreo instant pudding mix - there was no idea until this that there was such a thing.

How powerful is the placebo effect? After a good night’s sleep could a scientist convince you that you had tossed and turned, and if so, how would that affect your perceptions and behavior? What if a doctor told you that you had slept like a baby when in reality you had barely slept at all? Would hearing those words improve your performance on a difficult test?

In this episode we learn the answers to these questions and more as we explore how research continues to unravel the mysteries behind the placebo effect and how it can drastically alter our bodies and minds.

Our guest is Kristi Erdal, a psychologist at Colorado College who discovered placebo sleep along with one of her students, Christina Draganich. Draganich wondered if such a thing might exist after reading all the literature on placebos, and Erdal helped her create the research methods she used to test her hypothesis.

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