placebo effect

基本解釋

This is what is known as the placebo effect.
這就是眾所周知的安慰劑效應(yīng)。
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(fā)現(xiàn)向一則科學(xué)家間的共識(shí)發(fā)起了挑戰(zhàn)，即病人在接受針灸后感受到的任何好轉(zhuǎn)都純屬安慰劑效果。
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.
安慰劑效應(yīng)令人發(fā)狂，無(wú)安慰劑效應(yīng)尤甚于此，然而對(duì)于我們?nèi)绾巫鰶Q定以及被啟發(fā)所誤導(dǎo)和心理捷徑的研究，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.