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The nocebo effect is basically the opposite of the placebo effect. It's when people experience pain, illness or die when they aren't really sick, they just think they are, expect to be, are in an environment where sick people would usually go e.g. a hospital or even see someone else who is sick from something possibly contagious. -Sira

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