#29 The Placebo Effect with Professor Steve Kamper

What exactly is a placebo effect? When you try and pin it down, it's confusing. Technically, it's something inert that produces an effect...how can there be an effect without a mechanism? Prof. Steve Kamper is here to help bring clarity to the issue. 

Key Papers:

Kamper 2013: The placebo effect: powerful, powerless or redundant?

Testa and Rossettini 2016: Enhance placebo, avoid nocebo: How contextual factors affect physiotherapy outcomes

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