Share Level 5 Unit 10 Reading and Vocabulary
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Who received a placebo after being told it was likely to have a positive effect on them?
Cyclists prepating for a time trial.
Who didn't perform any better after taking a placebo?
Half the cyclists who received placebo
Who gave people placebos expecting them to have no effect whatsoever?
Doctors in the 19th century
Who felt better as a result of medical malpractice?
Patients with broken backs
Who developed the earliest theories on how major physical problems could have psychological causes?
Freud
Who has the opposite reaction to most people when given some placebo pills?
Italian soccer fans, for whom blue pills act as a stimulant rather than a sedative
Who was eager to be given a supply of sugar pills?
People who had taken part in a drug trial at Harvard
Who can produce a similar effect to a placebo, using only words?
A caring and sympathetic doctor
