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RESEARCH TYPE:
Psychology


Human Studies


2021 Jul 07


Psychosom Med

Direct verbal suggestibility as a predictor of placebo hypoalgesia responsiveness.

Authors

Parsons RD, Bergmann S, Wiech K, Terhune DB
Psychosom Med. 2021 Jul 07.
PMID: 34297008.

Abstract

Reliably identifying good placebo responders has pronounced implications for basic research on, and clinical applications of, the placebo response. Multiple studies point to direct verbal suggestibility as a potentially valuable predictor of individual differences in placebo responsiveness, but previous research has produced conflicting results on this association.