Originally published at: A study shows that expectancy effects may be the source of microdosing's benefits | Boing Boing
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This mirrors my limited experiences with microdosing wherein the micro part is less interesting than the dosing.
My n=1 experiences have been the same. They’ve entirely been (a) nothing to report; or (b) some threshold (and annoying) physical symptoms that say it wasn’t really micro but wasn’t macro enough either.
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For those (like me) who foolishly assumed that “expectancy effects” are essentially the same as placebo …effects: here’s a psychological paper which asserts that placebo effects are a mere subset of expectancy effects and (as a bonus) if you read the whole thing (17 pages) will drive you …mad (and thereby increase the client base) [wink]
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Like a placebo except, shockingly, more fun.
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If it’s more fun, then you can assume…
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