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Task design structure outlining experimental flow from top to bottom, how conditions will be introduced, and Group/Subgroup Expectation Manipulations. Created with BioRender.com
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This study investigates placebos and video games’ usefulness as psychological research tools. One proposed underlying mechanism of the placebo effect is participants’ expectations. Such expectation effects exist in sports psychology and healthcare domains, but inconsistent findings have emerged on whether similar effects impact a participants’ cogn...
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