any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
placebo effect的用法和樣例:
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Reversal of the effect of naloxone demostrates the validity of this theory. 這就是所謂的安慰劑效應。
After decades in the jungles of fringe science, the placebo effect has become the elephant in the boardroom. 數十年來被視作邊緣科學的安慰劑效應,已成為不容忽視的焦點。