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A placebo effect is the tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work.
Placebo effect may also refer to:
- "The Placebo Effect", an episode of the 2002 television series The Twilight Zone
- Placebo Effect (band), a German dark electro band
- Placebo Effect (film), a 1998 American thriller film
- Placebo Effect (novel), a 1998 novel by Gary Russell
- "Placebo Effect", a song by Siouxsie and the Banshees from the 1979 album Join Hands
See also
edit- Placebo (disambiguation)
- Nocebo effect, occurring when negative expectations of the patient regarding a treatment cause the treatment to have a more negative effect than it otherwise would have