Placebos are more effective in intense pain than mild pain ; and they produce progressively weaker effects with repeated administration.

Placebos are widely used in medical research and medicine, and the placebo effect is a pervasive phenomenon ; in fact, it is part of the response to any active medical intervention.

Placebos can act similarly through classical conditioning, wherein a placebo and an actual stimulus are used simultaneously until the placebo is associated with the effect from the actual stimulus.

* Depression: Placebos reducing depression affect many of the same areas that are activated by antidepressants with the addition of the prefrontal cortex

Placebos also do not work as strongly in clinical trials because the subjects do not know whether they might be getting a real treatment or a sham one.

Placebos were widespread in medicine until the 20th century, and they were sometimes endorsed as necessary deceptions.

Placebos represented as alcohol can cause intoxication and sensorimotor impairment.

Placebos can help smokers quit.

Placebos do not work for everyone.

Placebos used in clinical trials have sometimes had unintended consequences.

The selective and directional qualities of basic value-orientations are clearly evident in these data: the `` success-oriented '' students choose vocational preparation, the `` other-directed '' choose goals of social adjustment ( `` getting along with people '' ), the `` intellectuals '' choose a liberal arts emphasis.

Patients deserve more attention than they are getting.

They predicted escalation, and escalation is what we are getting.

The colored people are getting employment at Kent House and other places, and they are near their places of employment.

Then, too, European drivers have reputations for being somewhat crazy on the road and some Americans are not particularly keen on getting mixed up with them.

Then there was the caterer's ad which read: `` are you getting married or having an affair??

`` You think the Russians are getting ahead of us in comedy ''??

There is little evidence that existing public or private training programs have any great difficulty getting students to enroll in their programs, even though they must pay tuition, receive no subsistence payments, and are not guaranteed a job.

There are two ways of getting at a poet's development: through his dated poems, and through the revisions which he made in later editions of his work.

You realize you are getting in the old fogy class.

To put it bluntly, you are getting out-moded.

If these facilities are not at the door, getting them may cost more than you expect.

`` It is a much easier course to agree to let one another alone so far as ordinary patents are concerned '', said a trade authority, `` than to continue the costly effort of straightening the tangle in the courts or seeking to reform the patent system, which appears to be getting into deeper confusion every day ''.

Here are hatched plans for getting a share of the American bounty, the secret of the anti-missile missile, or an invitation to dinner.

Georgia Republicans are getting strong encouragement to enter a candidate in the 1962 governor's race, a top official said Wednesday.

Although the Administration's program cut crop acreage to the lowest point since 1934, farmers, with the help of extra fertilizer and good weather, are getting such high yields per acre that many are being forced to buy new harvesting machines.

Housewives are finding literally hundreds of ways of getting the maximum use out of traditional designs, says Mr. Alden and they are doing it largely because Colonial craftsmen had `` an innate sense of the practical ''.

Visualize them, then, believe you are getting them, and you will have them ''!!

Pregnant women and women with sexually transmitted infections are especially at risk for getting this infection.

Phrased another way: young males ( who make up the vast majority of combatants in civil wars ) are less likely to join a rebellion if they are getting an education and / or have a comfortable salary, and can reasonably assume that they will prosper in the future.

Some of these stories are whodunits ; in others the criminal is well known, and it is a case of getting enough evidence.

Or, more rhythmically, ' The swarthy witches are laughing '??

but four Eromonga women are more than a match for the strongest male that ever lived.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

I suspect that there are far more unreconstructed ones than the North likes to believe.

Old attitudes are held more tenaciously in the Tidewater than the Piedmont ; ;

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

These my grandmother left in their places ( they are still there, more persistent and longer-lived than the generations of man ) and planted others like them, that flourished without careful tending.

The Poetics, in affirming that all human arts are `` modes of imitation '', gives a more serious role to artistic mimesis than did Plato.

The state universities of Maine, New Hampshire, And Vermont are older and more `` respectable '' ; ;

Among the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature more than half are practically unknown to readers of English.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

All four types of message listed in Table 1 are permitted, although decorum and cocktail tradition require holding the commands to a minimum, while exclamations having complimentary intonations are more than customarily encouraged.

In contrast to cocktail parties, military organizations, even in the field, are more formal.

Have not our physical abilities already deteriorated because of the more sedentary lives we are now living??

What is more, the legends have become so sacrosanct that the very habit of self-examination or self-criticism smells of low treason, and men who practice it are defeatists and unpatriotic scoundrels.

and the laughter and the happiness are even more pronounced when no company is present.

but they are important foundation stones for more extensive exploration of outer space for the ultimate benefit of all mankind.