nocebo

• Powerwatch concluded that people who incorrectly identify themselves as electrosensitive may be skewing these sort of studies -- what they call nocebo responses. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
• A nocebo response occurs when the suggestion of a negative effect of an intervention leads to an actual negative outcome. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
• That would make sense except that the range of possible nocebo responses stretches far beyond stomachache (in extreme cases, ailing patients who are mistakenly informed that they have only a few months to live will die within their given time frame, even though postmortem investigations show that there was no physiological explanation for early death). —  TIME.com: Top Stories
• Interestingly, patients who took sugar pills tended to report nocebo problems consistent with whatever drug they thought they might have swallowed. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
• A final question: What happens now that more of us are onto the placebo/nocebo problem? —  TIME.com: Top Stories

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