The main purpose of the current project is to find the relevant connections between two separate theories that are widely discussed, studied and used in practical psychology. These are the theory of Placebo effect and the Social nor theories. This project will describe both of them separately, discuss their history, their main tenets and tendencies and it will also discuss the main academic works that were devoted to description and study of these theories. The paper seeks to find any association between these two theories, as well.
There are various definitions of “Placebo effect”; however, all of them share
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