1st Edition
Placebo Effects in Sport and Exercise
1. What are placebo effects? An introduction
John S. Raglin
2. Can placebo effects go wrong? The nocebo effect in sport and exercise
Luana Colloca
3. Can a placebo effect make me faster? Evidence for placebo effects as performance enhancers in sport
Guilherme Matta, Florentina Hettinga, and Andrew Edwards
4. What happens in my brain when I experience a placebo effect? Neurobiological mechanisms of placebo effects
Bart Roelands
5. Are placebo effects special? A social-evolutionary perspective on resource perception in exercise-induced fatigue and performance
Emma Cohen
6. Do I think or do I feel a placebo effect? Placebo effects and emotion in sport
Chris Beedie
7. Are placebo effects a perceptual illusion? Placebo effects on performance within the Bayesian Brain
Aaron Greenhouse-Tucknott, Jake B. Butterworth, James G. Wrightson, and Jeanne Dekerle
8. Can we replace oxygen, at least partially, with a placebo? Placebo effects at high altitude
Fabrizio Benedetti
9. Can we remove placebo effects from exercise interventions? Methodological considerations for understanding the psychological benefits of exercise
Jacob B. Lindheimer
10. Do placebo effects improve my skill? The influence of placebo effects on motor control and learning
Mirta Fiorio and Diletta Barbiani
11. How do I use placebo effects to improve my interventions? Harnessing knowledge of placebo effects to maximise the effectiveness of interventions in sport
Andrew M. Lane, Ross Cloak, and Tracey J. Devonport
12. Do you have to lie to induce placebo effects? The use of open label placebos in sport and exercise
Bryan Saunders, Felipe Miguel Marticorena, and Bruno Gualano
13. If I inject words not drugs, will athletes be less likely to dope?
Philip Hurst and Abby Foad
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
Chris Beedie
15. Can I use the placebo effect to treat injured or ill athletes? Ethics, deception, and placebo effects in sports medicine
Marcus Campos, Pascal Borry, and Mike McNamee
Biography
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.
