Can your doctors’ beliefs about the efficacy of a treatment affect how you experience pain? In episode 65, we’re joined by Luke Chang from the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. He talks with us about his research into socially transmitted placebo effects, through which patients can pick up on subtle facial cues that reveal their doctor’s beliefs about how effective a treatment will be.
Children found more likely to control their immediate impulses when they and a peer rely on each other to get a reward than when they’re left to their own willpower.
Neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal: scientists create world's first living, programmable, self-healing machines from frog stem cells.
Whether pro or con, people with strong views on vaccination tend to hold their ground and refuse to pick up dissenting opinions, even when confronted with contradictory information online.
