The WIRED magazine discusses the study where researchers showed a saline spray “treatment” reduced people’s emotional distress, even though the study subjects knew the spray wouldn’t do anything.
How might this work translate to the real world of mental health treatment?
Professor Tor Wager, a co-author of the study suspects that different “ingredients”—like reinforcing belief in the effectiveness of the placebo at a particular time—could make placebos more or less durable.
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