1. I wanted to eliminate the placebo effect.

2. And of course, also there's the placebo effect.

3. Chocolate may seem like an Aphrodisiac because of the placebo effect

4. The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine.

5. She was only given a placebo, but she claimed she got better - that's the placebo effect.

6. Medicine has generally regarded the placebo effect as a nuisance: it does make research on new medical drugs very difficult.

7. Abstract Subliminal self-help Audiotapes to aid weight loss were evaluated to determine if their apparent effectiveness is due to a placebo effect

8. Blinding is also done to address or control for the placebo effect, a phenomenon in which a simulated (and ineffective) treatment can sometimes improve a patient’s condition, simply because the person has the expectation that it will be beneficial

9. For example, a Blind date is a date in which the people involved have not previously met; a Blind experiment is one in which information is kept from either the experimenter or the participant to mitigate the placebo effect or observer bias.