Do You Think Your Brain Can Make Itself Function Better With Placebo?
Question by jacob smithsen: do you think your brain can make itself function better with placebo?
your mind can make you sick and have you experience physical symptoms.
confidence is the most obvious thing we can see of how the brain affects our function. people confident in sports are better than those that are not, even if they have the same physical ability. of course this is a flawed example.
Do you think confidence can affect intelligence?
what is your reasoning? I hate people that say yes/no to a question without reason.
Best answer:
Answer by Daniel
So this is a multipart question, and I want to help with all of it – as I run the Placebo Research Center:
1. when we fall sick for reasons to do mostly with our mental state, that can be called the “nocebo effect”. The nocebo effect is opposite the placebo effect – in response to a given set of stimuli we get worse.
2. Confidence can absolutely effect intelligence. There have been a number of stereotype studies that show this to be true. Perhaps the most famous was done in the seventies in which black children were told they were being tested to judge the relative intelligence of their race. When primed with this question – and the stereotype of black people being less smart – they did significantly worse on the test… even though they did equal to all other races when not primed with that example.
It’s easy to think of our intelligence as just a static number. (e.g. You have an IQ of 152). But the reality is that intelligence varies depending on how we perceive ourselves in the world and in given situations, and placebos can support increased intelligence by cultivating meaning, positive perceptions of ourselves and our world.
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