Dr. Kelly Clemens on why the placebo effects occurs, the conditions under which the placebo effect is more likely to occur, how healthcare practitioners can utilise the placebo effect in their practice, how you can harness the placebo effect in your life and much more...
Dr. Clemens' Bio
Dr. Kelly Clemens is a health psychologist whose research centres on treatment behaviours and outcomes, including placebo effects. Dr. Clemens has published a number of peer-reviewed articles on the placebo effect, the nocebo effect and psychosocial factors affecting health outcomes. Dr. Clemens is currently a researcher at the University of Toledo, and will be joining the faculty at Illinois State University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall of 2023.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:30 What are Placebo and Nocebo Effects?
5:17 Mechanisms of the Placebo Effect
11:47 Who is more likely to experience the Placebo Effect?
15:16 When the Placebo Effect is more likely to occur
20:57 The Placebo Effect for Healthcare Practitioners
25:00 Open Label Placebos
28:40 Harnessing the Placebo Effect in your life
Further readings mentioned in this episode:
‘Social communication pathways to COVID-19 vaccine side-effect expectations and experience’ by Clemens et. al. (2022)
‘Harnessing the placebo effect: Exploring the influence of physician characteristics on placebo response’ by Howe, Goyer and Crum (2017)
‘Placebos without Deception: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Irritable Bowel Syndrome’ by Kaptchuk et. al. (2010)
‘The Powerful Placebo’ by Beecher (1955)
‘A meta-analysis of brain mechanisms of placebo analgesia: consistent findings and unanswered questions’ by Atlas and Wager (2014)
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