if you don't already, feel free to follow our lab's twitter account which is being revived to showcase our upcoming work! 🤠

Well done, Biya!!! Sydney Placebo Lab USYD Psychology Very proud 👏

was a lot of fun presenting at the symposium! hoping to share more soon 👀

thank you to the organisers of #SPPC2023 for providing postgrad psych students with a stress-free environment to present our research! honoured to have received the first place talk in experimental psychology 🤠

our lab kicked off this year's Christmas festivities by playing lawn bowls ⚪⚫ and participating in Schrottwichteln 🎲🎁 any guesses as to what Prof Ben Colagiuri received? 🤔

at #SPSP2024, i’ll be presenting a poster that explains how social media posts like these led people to experience more severe COVID-19 vaccine side effects. 🤒 excited to attend for the first time! Society for Personality and Social Psychology SPSP Student Committee 🪧 Poster 247 (Poster Session B Friday 8:00AM)

also presenting the poster at the #SPSP2024 health preconference this afternoon! come learn more about how the placebo effect's evil twin, the nocebo effect, might have affected your COVID-19 vaccine experience.

One of our recent studies examining the social transmission of nocebo effects, led by lab alumni Dr Kirsten Barnes and Rodela Mostafa, has been mentioned in Guardian Australia! 📰

Day 3 of IASP #WC2024 and we have Winston Tan presenting his poster exploring how the model-observer relationship influences social learning of the nocebo effect 🤔🫂 🪧 WE476 | 9:30 - 11:00am

a meta-analysis just published by Cosette Saunders and myself! ⚠️ we provide guidelines on what info to provide about social learning manipulations. should be helpful to uncover some potential nuances that drive these effects! ⚠️ feel free to ask q's! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

two weeks ago i ran my first marathon. today i submitted my phd thesis, wrapping up a whole different kind of marathon. a big thank you to everyone who i've worked with over the past 3.5 years! hope there's many more marathons (of the first type) to come! 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

been sitting on this news for a bit but i can now officially say that i: ✅ passed my phd defence ✅ accepted a postdoc position at Sydney Placebo Lab USYD Psychology to continue research on socially-induced nocebo effects 👨‍🔬 see everyone in 2025 🫡

⭐️ We're hosting the 2025 Australian Placebo Nocebo Symposium on 14 Feb! ⭐️ This one-day program will showcase advances in #placebo and #nocebo research and build collaborative networks between researchers and clinicians. To submit an abstract/register: eventbrite.com.au/e/2025-austral…

Who is joining us at this year's Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies conference in Krakow? 🌈 Website: sips2025.eu We are again organising an ECR summer school prior and you can still register until 1.3. sips2025.eu/preconference/… You can also submit a science slam (submissions open 1.3.) 🤩

⭐️ PhD candidate Cosette Saunders wrote a great article for The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand discussing the #nocebo effect and how it's relevant to you (e.g., it can be socially transmitted to you through the social media platform you're using right now)! 🤕USYD Psychology theconversation.com/you-can-catch-…

Building on her recent article, PhD Candidate Cosette Saunders just spoke to James O'Loghlin about the #nocebo effect on ABC Australia radio! USYD Psychology Listen to a snippet of it below! 📻 ✨