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Title: | Motivation and the placebo response : predicting non-specific therapeutic benefits from the concordance of therapeutic rituals with high-level goals | ||||||
Author: | Whalley, Benjamin Jon | ||||||
Awarding Body: | University of Plymouth | ||||||
Current Institution: | University of Plymouth | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2008 | ||||||
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Predicting individual differences in placebo responding has proved hard. Predictions from dispositional or personality variables are unreliable for two reasons: first, because dispositional predictions fail to account for situational variability, and second, because the dimensions identified in popular dispositional models are inter-individual variables, and may not map on to intra-individual structures and processes involved in placebo effects. This thesis describes a new psychological mechanism of placebo responding—motivational concordance—which links placebos with established research on human values and goal striving.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.503956 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
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