Darwin A. Guevarra
Last Updated: December 11, 2022
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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.
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