Klier and Linn, âNew-vehicle Characteristics and the Cost of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standard.â Mark R. Jacobsen, âEvaluating U.S. Fuel Economy Standards in a Model with Producer and Household Heterogeneity,â American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 5, No. 2 (May 2013), pp. 1489â87. Ibid., Table 8.
The placebo effect can make some treatments seem like they help certain symptoms, when in fact they do nothing to directly cause a change in the disease. Other factors that are sometimes lumped in with the placebo effect can also make a treatment appear to help even when it does nothing for the illness.n the past, some researchers have questioned whether thereâs convincing proof that the placebo effect is a real effect. But there are studies showing that the placebo effect is real in some situations. For example, scientists have recorded brain activity in response to placebo.
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word placebo effect. Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: GCIDE(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Placebo effect(n.) a reaction by a patient who receives a placebo, in which the symptoms of illness are lessened or an anticipated effect is experienced. Because the placebo itself has no pharmacological activity, this reaction is mediated by the expectations of the patient receiving the placebo; the reaction is considered as an example of the power of suggestion.