<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:53 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Another angle: it seems like placebo effect would work both directions.  Perhaps positive placebo effect works on optimistic people and the negative works on pessimistic people.  I know plenty of pessimists who seem to somehow will themselves into sickness.  I think I know more pessimists than optimists.  Perhaps I am comparing them to myself, the well-known super-optimist.</span></p>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### It's the "nocebo" effect, well-known in medical circles:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo</a> </div>
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