{"id":34310,"date":"2011-03-10T11:32:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34310"},"modified":"2011-11-26T19:13:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T00:13:04","slug":"the-placebo-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/10\/the-placebo-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Placebo Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/14.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"111\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38064\" \/><\/a>Squee sent in this video on the complexities of the placebo effect. We most often hear about the placebo effect in terms of medicine (the famed &#8220;sugar pill&#8221; that makes people feel better despite having no known effect on a condition), but as the video points out, we use placebos in other aspects of social life as well, such as buttons at intersections that don&#8217;t affect the timing of the &#8220;walk&#8221; signal but make pedestrians feel better about their wait anyway. And since the placebo effect is based in part on cultural assumptions about what <em>should<\/em> make us feel better (i.e., an expensive drug must be better than a discounted one, right?), not surprisingly the effectiveness of specific placebos varies cross-culturally.<\/p>\n<p>Fun!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yfRVCaA5o18?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squee sent in this video on the complexities of the placebo effect. We most often hear about the placebo effect in terms of medicine (the famed &#8220;sugar pill&#8221; that makes people feel better despite having no known effect on a condition), but as the video points out, we use placebos in other aspects of social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,252,675,37],"class_list":["post-34310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-healthmedicine","tag-psychology","tag-social-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42431,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34310\/revisions\/42431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}