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Consider the negative placebo response, called the nocebo effect. (The term nocebo is also from Latin, this time from the infinitive nocere, "to do harm.") A nocebo response occurs when the suggestion of a negative effect of an intervention leads to an actual negative outcome. When doctors tell patients that a medical procedure will be extremely painful, for example, they tend to experience significantly more pain than patients who weren't similarly warned. And in double-blind clinical trials of antidepressants, even those participants receiving a sugar pill report side effects like gastrointestinal discomfort if investigators have warned them...
...deans are going to say, ‘When someone leaves, is this a role and field that we want to cover? Is our department the right size? Is this an appointment that should be replaced right now, relative to other near term investments we might make?’” Faust said in a September interview...
...convincing. The same cannot be said of Sterle’s. The character of James is arrogant, jocular, and openly admits to “always wanting more sex, more weed, more pieces published.” But Ellie must use “Professor” as a term of endearment so we remember that he is not a college student plucked from the audience...
That is not to say that many around the U.S. and the globe did not have reason to react with surprise and confusion upon hearing that Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so early in his presidential term. Given that Obama has still not produced many concrete diplomatic accomplishments in the few short months he has been in office, the award seems strangely premature, bestowed as an endorsement of Obama’s vision rather than his actions. Although none of this provides grounds for faulting Obama himself, who clearly didn’t submit his own nomination...
Once upon a time, kids, there was a TV show called Seinfeld. It was a "sitcom." This was a term for a popular genre - watched by tens of millions of viewers - in which amusing things were said and done not by politicians trying to dance or amateurs trying to sing but by professional actors pretending to be real people, for 22 minutes at a time. When Seinfeld aired its finale in 1998, about 76 million people tuned...