caa a22 4500 388072970 CHVBK 20180307125153.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0790966700005176 doi S0790966700005176 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0790966700005176 Dolinska Barbara Department of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, ul. Dawida 1, Wroclaw, Poland Empirical investigation into placebo effectiveness [Elektronische Daten] [Barbara Dolinska] Objectives: To investigate whether placebo effects may vary in strength, depending on appearance of the medication. Method: Polish subjects were randomly given different kinds of pills and told that the medicine was produced abroad or in Poland and that it was cheap or very expensive. Measures of different forms of well-being were taken directly after the ‘therapy'. Results: Subjective ratings were higher for subjects who received big white or small red medicine compared to subjects who received small white or big red pills. The results are discussed in the light of the subject's previous experience with drugs of different kinds. Conclusion: It was shown that placebo effects do vary in strength, depending on the appearance of the pill. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Placebo effectiveness nationallicence Drug therapy nationallicence Poland nationallicence Polish subjects nationallicence Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 16/2(1999-06), 57-58 0790-9667 16:2<57 1999 16 IPM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0790966700005176 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 conference jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0790966700005176 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dolinska Barbara Department of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, ul. Dawida 1, Wroclaw, Poland NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 16/2(1999-06), 57-58 0790-9667 16:2<57 1999 16 IPM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge