Useful links for our article explaining why most psychology interventions do not adequately control for placebo effects
Two days, ago, Walter Boot, Cary Stothart, Cassie Stutts, and I published a paper in Perspectives on Psychological Science (linked below) arguing that most studies in psychology do not adequately account for the placebo effect. I thought it might be useful to provide all of the relevant links about that paper in one place, so I’m doing so here. I’ll update this post as needed.
Paper: http://pps.sagepub.com/content/8/4/445.full
My blog post: http://blog.dansimons.com/2013/07/pop-quiz-what-can-we-learn-from.html
*The public repository for data and information about the studies we conducted and our paper *: http://openscienceframework.org/project/7EB6A/
Frequent Questions Answered: http://openscienceframework.org/project/7EB6A/node/KSzdu/wiki/home
The surveys used in our studies: http://openscienceframework.org/project/7EB6A/node/tPyR4/wiki/home
Data from our studies: http://openscienceframework.org/project/7EB6A/node/Qt9kA/
Below are links to some excellent coverage of our paper by others:
Ed Yong: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/09/nice-results-but-what-did-you-expect/
Micah Allen: http://neuroconscience.com/2013/07/11/when-is-expectation-not-a-confound-on-the-necessity-of-active-controls/
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