<p>I've been reading about how rituals (performed right before a task) increase confidence and readiness for the task, and improve performance by "dulling the neural response to performance failure" (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5452956/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">source</a>), and that they work by triggering the placebo effect. This lead me to my question: what is the probability of a ritual to cause this positive effect on a randomly chosen person?</p>

<p>I didn't manage to find any statistics or useful numbers regarding what part of the population is receptive to placebo.</p>

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Are you talking chances of a 'ritual' to be an effective placebo (little literature available I guess) or the placebo effect in general (larger body of literature)?
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@AliceD I'm talking about rituals, but given the option I'd like to know at least the chances of a person to be receptive to placebo since it would give an upper limit to the estimate of ritual's chances to be an effective placebo.
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# Chance of receptiveness to ritual / placebo

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-09-19)

I've been reading about how rituals (performed right before a task) increase confidence and readiness for the task, and improve performance by "dulling the neural response to performance failure" ([source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5452956/)), and that they work by triggering the placebo effect. This lead me to my question: what is the probability of a ritual to cause this positive effect on a randomly chosen person?

I didn't manage to find any statistics or useful numbers regarding what part of the population is receptive to placebo.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Are you talking chances of a 'ritual' to be an effective placebo (little literature available I guess) or the placebo effect in general (larger body of literature)?  
> **username_0**: @username_1 I'm talking about rituals, but given the option I'd like to know at least the chances of a person to be receptive to placebo since it would give an upper limit to the estimate of ritual's chances to be an effective placebo.  

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