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A placebo effect is a phenomenon of medication or medical treatment, even inert or ineffective ones, 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
Nocebo effect, the phenomenon of a patient's expectations for a treatment causing the treatment to have a worse effect than it otherwise would have
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