Selected Media Coverage

Guevarra, D. A., Moser, J. S., Wager, T. D., & Kross, E. (2020). Placebos without deception reduce self-report and neural measures of emotional distress. Nature Communications, 11, 3785.

Selected Articles and Blog Posts:

Telling people it's a placebo does not stop it from working. Sciworthy.
Can Placebos Work––Even When Patients Know They're Fake? Wired.
If You Believe a Placebo Reduces Negative Feelings, It Might. Psychology Today.
Placebos Can Ease Stress – Event When People Know They're Placebos. Psych Central News.
Placebos Cut Distress––Event When You Know They're Placebos. The Epoch Times.
Non-Deceptive Placebos Alter Neural Markers of Emotion Regulation. BrainPost.
The weird science of the placebo effect keeps getting more interesting. Vox.

Selected Podcasts and Presentations:

Fool Me Once Again – Darwin Guevarra. Parsing Science.
Darwin Guevarra: Placebos without Deception? The Scientistt Podcast.
Animation summary: Placebos without deception reduce emotional distress. Scientistt Studio.
Placebos work. Why? Unexplainable by Vox.
The placebo you know! Science Decoded by Sciworthy.

Moser, S., Dougherty, A., Mattson, W.I., Katz, B., Moran, T.P., Guevarra, D.A., Shablack, H., Ayduk, O., Jonides, J., Berman, M., & Kross, E. (2017). Third person self-talk facilitates emotional control without engaging cognitive control: Converging evidence from ERP and fMRI. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 4519.

Selected Articles and Blog Posts:

Third-Person Self-Talk Can Support Emotional Control. Psych Central News.
Feeling Stressed? Try Talking to Yourself, But in Third Person. Newsweek.
To De-stress, Try Talking About Yourself in the Third Person. New York Magazine.
Feeling Stressed? How Self-Talk Can Help You Control Your Emotions. Forbes.

Guevarra, D.A., & Howell, R.T. (2015). To have in order to do: Exploring the effects of consuming experiential products on well-being. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 25(1), 28-41.

Selected Articles and Blog Posts:

Actually, Some Material Goods Can Make You Happy. The Atlantic.
How Money Can Buy You Happiness. Men's Health.