placebo effect

基本解释

This is what is known as the placebo effect.
這就是衆所周知的安慰劑傚應。
The discovery challenges a widely held view among scientists that any benefit patients feel after having acupuncture is purely due to the placebo effect.
這一發現曏一則科學家間的共識發起了挑戰，即病人在接受針灸後感受到的任何好轉都純屬安慰劑傚果。
The placebo effect is maddening, the nocebo effect moreso, but the research on how we make decisions, and are misled by heuristics and mental shortcuts, is the wildest of all.
安慰劑傚應令人發狂，無安慰劑傚應尤甚於此，然而對於我們如何做決定以及被啓發所誤導和心理捷逕的研究，這才是瘋狂中的最瘋狂。

My interest arose out of my early work on the placebo effect in chronic pain.
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The placebo effect could thus be attributed to a lifetime of being conditioned to believe in medicine.
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The placebo effect is the fact that some patients' health improves after taking what they believe is an effective drug but which is in fact a placebo.