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For questions about the psychology of tricking or manipulating others with falsehoods

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Can a person "self-induce" the placebo effect?

Despite a recent dubious claim that placebos don't require deception (critiqued here), placebos appear to function on the basis that a subject believes X will have effect Y. … Can a person, without self-deception [1] and with knowledge of the placebo effect, induce a placebo response? …
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