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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 31 May 2011 03:31:03PM *  3 points [-]

To isolate the effects of hypnosis from the desire of the subject to please the researcher you need to administer a placebo hypnosis.

This is an amusing sentence for me because I suspect that the way hypnosis works is by taking advantage of the desire of the subject to please the hypnotist. In other words, I supect that a placebo hypnosis is just a hypnosis.