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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>


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