placebo effect

基本解释

This is what is known as the placebo effect.
这就是众所周知的安慰剂效应。
The discovery challenges a widely held view among scientists that any benefit patients feel after having acupuncture is purely due to the placebo effect.
这一发现向一则科学家间的共识发起了挑战，即病人在接受针灸后感受到的任何好转都纯属安慰剂效果。
The placebo effect is maddening, the nocebo effect moreso, but the research on how we make decisions, and are misled by heuristics and mental shortcuts, is the wildest of all.
安慰剂效应令人发狂，无安慰剂效应尤甚于此，然而对于我们如何做决定以及被启发所误导和心理捷径的研究，这才是疯狂中的最疯狂。

My interest arose out of my early work on the placebo effect in chronic pain.
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The placebo effect could thus be attributed to a lifetime of being conditioned to believe in medicine.
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The placebo effect is the fact that some patients' health improves after taking what they believe is an effective drug but which is in fact a placebo.