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 when participants displayimprovements after being administered a placebo, on the belief that it has beneficial powerseven though it has none.

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September 27th 2021

actor/observer biases

 theserefer to the tendency for (a) ‘actors’ to explain their own behaviour in situationalterms and (b) observers to explain the behaviour of others in dispositional (person) terms.