Psychological Processes that can Bias Responses to Placebo Treatment for Pain

Placebo and Pain: From Bench to Bedside

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 175-182

  Colagiuri, Ben ^a   Lovibond, Peter F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias; Demand characteristics; Hawthorne effect; Pain; Placebo effect; Response shift

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902418006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397928-5.00017-9     Document Type: Chapter

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