Just as the mind can convince the body of positive outcomes with a mere placebo, it also has the capacity to evoke negative consequences through a phenomenon known as the “nocebo effect.” ...

Why is it used in vaccine trials?) Blease ― a health researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden, and one of the authors of "The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick" ― was feeling nauseous ...

Blease ― a health researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden, and one of the authors of "The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick" ― was feeling nauseous with motion sickness. She was trying ...

The nocebo effect could be seen as the evil twin of the placebo effect: instead of thinking yourself well, you are thinking yourself ill – although not deliberately or even necessarily consciously.