Synonyms for placebo effect
pləˈsi boʊplacebo effect

Princeton's WordNet

1. placebo effectnoun

   any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs

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1. Kathryn Hall:

   We are still in the early stages of using genetic screening for the placebo response in clinical trials, and as our knowledge of personalized medicine evolves it makes sense that we also consider how the placebo effect fits into treatment response.

2. Sarah Steele:

   Potential buyers should be made aware that no scientific study evidences that direct adult consumption of human milk for medicinal properties offers anything more than a placebo effect.

3. Brandon A. Trean:

   The highest form of medicine is the simplest and most honest activation of the placebo effect via self-induction.

4. Steven Nissen:

   The placebo effect is very powerful, i can imagine how this plays out in the athletic world, where you're operating at the 99th percentile of human performance. Someone says, 'I can give you something that's going to make you a little bit better.' It's very tantalizing to try it.