Does The Placebo Effect Influence Consumer Product Purchases?
Published: May 11, 2016 / Author: Shankar Vedantam, NPR
Novices play better golf when they have expensive brand name equipment, research shows. Brand name products alleviate some performance anxiety but brands have no effect on better players.
Listen to NPR story about marketing assistant professor Frank Germann’s research.
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