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Author:   Philip Hurst ,  Chris Beedie
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9781032133942

ISBN 10:   1032133945
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   05 October 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. What are placebo effects? An introduction. 2. Can placebo effects go wrong? The nocebo effect in sport and exercise. 3. Can a placebo effect make me faster? Evidence for placebo effects as performance enhancers in sport. 4. What happens in my brain when I experience a placebo effect? Neurobiological mechanisms of placebo effects. 5. Are placebo effects special? A social-evolutionary perspective on resource perception in exercise-induced fatigue and performance. 6. Do I think or do I feel a placebo effect? Placebo effects and emotion in sport. 7. Are placebo effects a perceptual illusion? Placebo effects on performance within the Bayesian Brain. 8. Can we replace oxygen, at least partially, with a placebo? Placebo effects at high altitude. 9. Can we remove placebo effects from exercise interventions? Methodological considerations for understanding the psychological benefits of exercise. 10. Do placebo effects improve my skill? The influence of placebo effects on motor control and learning. 11. How do I use placebo effects to improve my interventions? Harnessing knowledge of placebo effects to maximise the effectiveness of interventions in sport. 12. Do you have to lie to induce placebo effects? The use of open label placebos in sport and exercise. 13. If I inject words not drugs, will athletes be less likely to dope?. 14. Is it OK to recommend complementary or alternative medicine even though I know it’s a placebo? Why the neurobiology of the placebo effect does not legitimize the use of CAM. 15. Can I use the placebo effect to treat injured or ill athletes? Ethics, deception, and placebo effects in sports medicine.

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Philip Hurst, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at the School of Psychology and Life Sciences at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Chris Beedie is an Honorary Professor and an affiliate of the Cognition and Neuroscience Research Group at the School of Psychology at the University of Kent, UK.

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