563: Can your thoughts make you sick? | Charlotte Blease, PhD & Cosima Locher, PhD

The mindbodygreen Podcast · Oct 20, 2024 · 47m

“Being aware of the nocebo effect can make you feel more in control,” says Charlotte Blease, PhD and Cosima Locher, PhD. Charlotte Blease, health informaticist and associate professor, and Cosima Locher, psychologist and researcher, join us today to discuss the nocebo effect, the power of our belief systems, the influence of information, plus: - What is the nocebo effect? (~2:20) - Covid19 and the nocebo effect (~4:30) - Misattribution and amplification (~6:04) - The history of the nocebo effect (~9:50) - The evolutionary perspective (~11:57) - Case studies (~14:04) - Mindset and diagnoses…