019 - The Placebo Effect - Kristi Erdal

019 - The Placebo Effect - Kristi Erdal

How powerful is the placebo effect? After a good night’s sleep could a scientist convince you that you had tossed and turned, and if so, how would that affect your perceptions and behavior? What if a doctor told you that you had slept like a baby when in reality you had barely slept at all? Would hearing those words improve your performance on a difficult test?



In this episode we learn the answers to these questions and more as we explore how research continues to unravel the mysteries behind the placebo effect and how it can drastically alter our bodies and minds.



Our guest is Kristi Erdal, a psychologist at Colorado College who discovered placebo sleep along with one of her students, Christina Draganich. Draganich wondered if such a thing might exist after reading all the literature on placebos, and Erdal helped her create the research methods she used to test her hypothesis.

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319 - Love Factually - Eli Finkel and Paul Eastwick

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318 - The Intention Action Gap - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)

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317 - Don't Talk About Politics - Sarah Stein Lubrano

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Sarah Stein Lubrano tells us about her new book, Don't Talk About Politics, which urges us not to lose hope or become frozen in frustration when it comes to polarization and faulty discourse because t...

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316 - Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy (rebroadcast)

316 - Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy (rebroadcast)

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315 - May Contain Lies - Alex Edmans

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314 - Fluke - Brian Klaas (rebroadcast)

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