Cognitive dissonance in the placebo treatment of insomnia–a pilot experiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9618953 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Totman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 393-400 |
| Publication date | 1976-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Medical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1129 • E-ISSN: 2056-5194 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1976.tb02390.x |
| PMID | 990212 |
| OpenAlex | W2098784688 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Insomnia in 11 general hospital in-patients was treated by a placebo. The conditions of administration of the placebo were experimentally varied, and a hypothesis derived from Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory was tested. Consistent with this hypothesis, it was found that patients who were required to make meaningful decisions concerning their treatment derived significantly greater hypnotic (therapeutic) value from it than did patients whose treatment was simply administered to them and who were not required to make such decisions. The power of cognitive dissonance theory to explain the placebo effect, and the therapeutic potential of this approach are discussed
Alternative medicine · Cognition · Cognitive dissonance · Cognitive restructuring · Cognitive therapy · Hypnotic · Insomnia · Placebo · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 1998 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |