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Making the Exercise Experience More Pleasant: Effects of Open-Label Placebos on Affective Responses to Exercise Induced through Verbal Suggestions

2024-11-08 sports medicine Title + abstract only
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ObjectiveBy manipulating psychological factors--such as fostering positive expectations about exercise outcomes through verbal suggestions--it is possible to induce placebo effects without the use of traditional placebos, such as inert substances (closed-label placebos, CLPs). This can be achieved even when individuals are aware they are receiving a placebo through verbal suggestions (open-label placebo, OLP). This proof-of-principle study investigated whether the effects of OLPs on affective re...

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