The placebo effect requires you to not know you're taking a placebo (patients in these studies are not told what it is about, they're just given pills/injections etc.) I can't think of a way you could feasibly set up a scenario where you were A) testing yourself for "the placebo effect", and B) not aware you are being given a placebo.
Is there a proven way to test if I'm susceptible to the placebo effect?
Placebo prescriptions or fake treatments work for people who believe they are ill, and it can actually improve the patient's condition. Are there actual cases where a placebo has improved the patie...
Are there actual cases where a placebo prescription or fake treatment ...
2 Related: Why use a placebo in some potential COVID-19 vaccine trials? What is the point of a placebo in studies where the subject can determine their group? The answers to the questions above give some very good reasons why a placebo or control group is necessary even when 'common sense' seems to indicate that it is not.
However, in order for the study to stay blind so that long term effects can be observed, they cannot be told they received a placebo. How do the pharmaceutical companies deal with this issue?
If placebo controls can have effects even when the patient is aware that the treatment is a placebo, then why not just always tell clinical trial participants they are using a placebo? Benefits Cost-effective Easier to recruit participants (Thus, potentially larger sample sizes)
If placebo controls work even when the patient is aware that the ...