nocebo effect

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Noun

nocebo effect (plural nocebo effects)

  1. A deleterious placebo effect.
    • 1997 June, Fabrizio Benedettia with Martina Amanzioa, Caterina Casadioc, Alberto Oliaroc, and Giuliano Maggic, “Blockade of nocebo hyperalgesia by the cholecystokinin antagonist proglumide”, in Pain, volume 71, number 2, →DOI, pages 135–140:
      A nocebo effect was observed when saline was administered.
    • 2012 August 10, Paul Enck with Winfried Häuser, “Beward the Nocebo Effect”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      The nocebo effect can be observed even when people take real, non-placebo drugs.
    • 2012 November 7, The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert (actor):
      The nocebo effect is a negative placebo effect. It's why I had my doctor take me off my placebos. They kept curing my hypochondria.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nocebo effect.

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