nocebo effect

English

Noun

nocebo effect (plural nocebo effects)

A deleterious placebo effect.
- 1997 June, Fabrizio Benedettia with Martina Amanzioa, Caterina Casadioc, Alberto Oliaroc, and Giuliano Maggic, “Blockade of nocebo hyperalgesia by the cholecystokinin antagonist proglumide”, in Pain, volume 71, number 2, →DOI, pages 135–140:
  A nocebo effect was observed when saline was administered.
- 2012 August 10, Paul Enck with Winfried Häuser, “Beward the Nocebo Effect”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
  The nocebo effect can be observed even when people take real, non-placebo drugs.
- 2012 November 7, The Colbert Report‎, Stephen Colbert (actor):
  The nocebo effect is a negative placebo effect. It's why I had my doctor take me off my placebos. They kept curing my hypochondria.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nocebo effect.

Translations

deleterious placebo effect

Finnish: lumehaitta, nosebovaikutus
French: effet nocebo (fr) m

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