Transmitting Placebo Effects Luke Chang

Published: Jan. 7, 2020, 4:54 p.m.

b"Can your doctors' beliefs about the efficacy of a treatment affect how you experience pain? In episode 65, we\\u2019re joined by Luke Chang from the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. He talks with us about his research into socially transmitted placebo effects, through which patients can pick up on subtle facial cues that reveal their doctor's beliefs about how effective a treatment will be."