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"Don't know" responding to answerable and unanswerable questions during misleading and hypnotic interviews

scientific article published in September 2008

A Functional Neuroimaging Study of Expectancy Effects on Pain Response in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

A Neural Mechanism for Nonconscious Activation of Conditioned Placebo and Nocebo Responses

scientific article

A Systematic Review of Comparative Efficacy of Treatments and Controls for Depression

scientific article published on July 30, 2012

A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on the neural mechanisms of hyperalgesic nocebo effect

scientific article published on December 2008

Active Albuterol or Placebo, Sham Acupuncture, or No Intervention in Asthma

scientific article published on July 14, 2011

Altered placebo and drug labeling changes the outcome of episodic migraine attacks

scientific article published on January 2014

Altered state of hypnosis: Changes in the theoretical landscape

An fMRI study on the interaction and dissociation between expectation of pain relief and acupuncture treatment

scientific article published on 06 June 2009

Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect

scientific article

Antidepressants and the placebo response.

scientific article published on October 2009

Are All Placebo Effects Equal? Placebo Pills, Sham Acupuncture, Cue Conditioning and Their Association

scientific article published on July 31, 2013

Automaticity in clinical psychology

scientific article

Catechol-O-methyltransferase val158met polymorphism predicts placebo effect in irritable bowel syndrome

scientific article published in 2012

Challenging received wisdom: antidepressants and the placebo effect

scientific article

Classical conditioning of analgesic and hyperalgesic pain responses without conscious awareness

scientific article published on 15 May 2015

Clinical trial methodology and drug-placebo differences

scientific article published on October 2015

Clinical trials and the response rate illusion

scientific article

Cognitive theories of human fear: An empirically derived integration

scholarly article published June 1991

Components of placebo effect: randomised controlled trial in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

scientific article

Conditioning, expectancy, and the placebo effect: comment on Stewart-Williams and Podd (2004).

scientific article published in March 2004

Conscientiousness is modified by genetic variation in catechol-O-methyltransferase to reduce symptom complaints in IBS patients

scientific article

Consistency of the placebo effect

scientific article

Default mode network connectivity encodes clinical pain: an arterial spin labeling study

scientific article published on 27 October 2012

Depression

scholarly article by Steven Jay Lynn and Irving Kirsch

Dissociative identity disorder and the sociocognitive model: Recalling the lessons of the past.

scientific article (publication date: 1999)

Distinct neural representations of placebo and nocebo effects

scientific article published on 14 March 2015

Do "placebo responders" exist?

scientific article

Double hypnotic induction: An initial empirical test

article

Drug approval and drug effectiveness

scientific article published on 09 December 2013

Effectiveness of non-benzodiazepine hypnotics in treatment of adult insomnia: meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration

scientific article

Effects of misleading questions and hypnotic memory suggestion on memory reports: a signal-detection analysis

scientific article published on July 2006

Efficacy of antidepressants in adults

scientific article

Empirically derived criteria cast doubt on the clinical significance of antidepressant-placebo differences

scientific article

Enhancing treatment of osteoarthritis knee pain by boosting expectancy: A functional neuroimaging study.

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Expectancy and Conditioning in Placebo Analgesia: Separate or Connected Processes?

scientific article

Expectancy and treatment interactions: a dissociation between acupuncture analgesia and expectancy evoked placebo analgesia

scientific article

Facilitated Communication as an Ideomotor Response

article

Grounding Hypnosis in Science: The "New" APA Division 30 Definition of Hypnosis as a Step Backward

scientific article

Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy: A meta-analysis

scientific article

Hypnosis, suggestion, and suggestibility: an integrative model

scientific article published in January 2015

Hypnotic enhancement of cognitive-behavioral weight loss treatments--another meta-reanalysis

scientific article

Hypnotic history: a reply to critics

scientific article published in April 2007

Hypnotic induction decreases anterior default mode activity

scientific article published on 25 September 2009

Hypnotic suggestibility, cognitive inhibition, and dissociation

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

Illness by suggestion: expectancy, modeling, and gender in the production of psychosomatic symptoms

scientific article published in February 2007

Imaginative Suggestibility and Hypnotizability

Immediate and persisting effects of misleading questions and hypnosis on memory reports

scientific article published in March 2002

Implications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus

In Memoriam of John F. Chaves (1941–2008)

Initial severity and antidepressant benefits: a meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration

scientific article published in February 2008

Investigating placebo effects in irritable bowel syndrome: a novel research design

scientific article

Kirsch et al.'s (2008) calculations are correct: reconsidering Fountoulakis & Möller's re-analysis of the Kirsch data

scientific article published on March 20, 2012

Listening to Prozac but hearing placebo: A meta-analysis of antidepressant medication

scientific article (publication date: 1998)

Mechanisms of Placebo Pain Reduction: An Empirical Investigation

article published in 1996

Moving beyond depression: How full is the glass?

scientific article published in March 2008

National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association consensus statement on the use of placebo in clinical trials of mood disorders

scientific article

Neuroimaging resolution of the altered state hypothesis

scientific article published on September 6, 2012

Nonconscious activation of placebo and nocebo pain responses

scientific article

Not seeing or feeling is still believing: conscious and non-conscious pain modulation after direct and observational learning

scientific article

Obsessive-compulsive disorder has a reduced placebo (and antidepressant) response compared to other anxiety disorders: A meta-analysis

scientific article published on 29 April 2017

Open-label placebo treatment in chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Open-label versus double-blind placebo treatment in irritable bowel syndrome: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Parental Attitudes About Placebo Use in Children

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Patient Expectancy as a Mediator of Placebo Effects in Antidepressant Clinical Trials

scientific article published on 9 September 2016

Patient and practitioner influences on the placebo effect in irritable bowel syndrome

scientific article

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. Preface

scientific article published on June 2011

Placebo Responses in Genetically Determined Intellectual Disability: A Meta-Analysis

scientific article

Placebo analgesia: findings from brain imaging studies and emerging hypotheses

scientific article

Placebo psychotherapy: synonym or oxymoron?

scientific article

Placebo versus "standard" hypnosis rationale: attitudes, expectancies, hypnotic responses, and experiences

scientific article published in October 2013

Placebos without Deception: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Irritable Bowel Syndrome

scientific article published on December 22, 2010

Polymorphisms in catechol-O-methyltransferase modify treatment effects of aspirin on risk of cardiovascular disease

scientific article

Portuguese norms for the Waterloo-Stanford Group C (WSGC) scale of hypnotic susceptibility

scientific article

Remembrance of Hypnosis Past

Response Expectancy and the Placebo Effect

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Response Expectancy and the Response to Antidepressant Medication

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

Response expectancy as a determinant of experience and behavior

article

Response expectancy theory and application: A decennial review

article

Review: benefits of antidepressants over placebo limited except in very severe depression

scientific article published on May 1, 2010

Sham device versus inert pill: randomised controlled trial of two placebo treatments

journal article published in 2006

Side effects can enhance treatment response through expectancy effects: an experimental analgesic randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 4 February 2017

Social Psychological Theories are Not Based on Compliance: Setting the Record Straight

Social-cognitive alternatives to dissociation theories of hypnotic involuntariness

Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain

scientific article

Suggestion in the treatment of depression

scientific article published in January 2013

The American Psychiatric Association’s Guideline for Major Depressive Disorder: A Commentary

scientific article published on March 17, 2012

The Emperor's New Drugs

book by Irving Kirsch

The Use of Placebos in Clinical Trials and Clinical Practice

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

The altered state issue: dead or alive?

scientific article published in July 2011

The effect of posthypnotic suggestion, hypnotic suggestibility, and goal intentions on adherence to medical instructions

scientific article published in April 2008

The effects of observation and gender on psychogenic symptoms

scientific article published in March 2010

The efficacy of paroxetine and placebo in treating anxiety and depression: a meta-analysis of change on the Hamilton Rating Scales

scientific article

The emperor's new drugs: An analysis of antidepressant medication data submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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The emperor's new drugs: medication and placebo in the treatment of depression

scientific article published on January 2014

The politics of reinforcement

scientific article published on January 1, 1974

The role of cognition in classical and operant conditioning

scientific article published on April 2004

Virtual reality exposure therapy for the treatment of fear of flying: a controlled investigation

scientific article published in October 2002

Well-loved music robustly relieves pain: a randomized, controlled trial.

scientific article