Wouldn’t people be projecting their desires and hopes that they will receive the outcomes they want onto the placebo and then it manifests as a “sort of positive” outcome? Sorry, I am already aware placebo is something that is supposed to be ineffective yet it still has some sort of positive effect, it’s just that I’m kind of confused.
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The difference is the origin of the belief.
A placebo is something that a person beliefs is legitimate, so they believe it has some sort of ability to do something. Like a pill that a doctor has ‘told’ someone is actually medicine, but isn’t. The belief originates with the object.
A projection would be something where the person has no outside indication that something will have some ability. They just ‘project’ that belief into the object. The belief originates from the person.
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