rumblegeek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 05 2008 | health news
A study published on Tuesday shows the well-known "placebo effect" works even better if the dummy pill costs more.
Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University in North Carolina, and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tested 82 volunteers.
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