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How Expectations and Conditioning Shape Our Response to Placebos
Kathryn Hall, an expert on placebos, considers the ways that expectations and learning affect our response to them.
Kathryn Hall, an expert on placebos, considers the ways that expectations and learning affect our response to them.
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