Introduction
anxiety, OLP
Placebo effects are clinically highly relevant and the need to harness these effects has been voicedThe concept of an imaginary pill (IP) was first introduced by De Shazer in 1984 in the context of clinical hypnosisIn light of the high prevalence of test anxiety, affecting for example 53% of German freshman medical studentsIn the present study, we set out to test the efficacy of an IP and OLP intervention in reducing test anxiety in a randomized controlled trial with healthy participants. To pursue this research question, we applied a previously used OLP intervention (e.g. in