Perception vs Nocebo - What's the difference?
perception | nocebo |
Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
Conscious understanding of something.
Vision (ability )
Acuity
(cognition ) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.
(pharmacology) A substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive.
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, passage= It is somewhat surprising that little attention has been drawn to the existence of the contrary effect [to the placebo] — which I may call the nocebo reaction.
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As nouns the difference between perception and nocebo
is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while nocebo is (pharmacology) a substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive.perception
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(wikipedia perception)Noun
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(wikipedia nocebo)Noun
(en noun)Why health warnings can be bad," Financial Times , 25 Apr. (retrieved 12 May 2009):
- In the case of the nocebo , it is negative expectations that become self-fulfilling prophecies.
Researchers Who Provided Key Evidence For Gluten Sensitivity Have Now Thoroughly Shown That It Doesn't Exist," Business Insider , 15 May 2014):
- It seems to be a "nocebo " effect — the self-diagnosed gluten sensitive patients expected to feel worse on the study diets, so they did.