Patient A was raised to view medical treatments as most effective; Patient B was raised to believe in faith healing and avoid medical treatments. If both patients are given a placebo, what is most likely?
A) The strength of their respective placebo responses should not be affected by the differences in what they believe.
B) Each will have a stronger response to a placebo that seems most similar to their respective preferred treatments.
C) Each will have a stronger response to a placebo that seems most different from the treatments that each one prefers.
D) Each will have a stronger response to a placebo that seems most different from the treatments that each one prefers.
B
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