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This opinion piece illustrates the close correspondence between the sixth sense, chance, and prospective thinking. Then, the placebo effect – when a fake treatment produces clinical effects similar to those of active treatment – is explained as a by-product of the sixth sense which is more than a chance.
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Saghazadeh, A., Rezaei, N. (2019). More than a Chance. In: Rezaei, N., Saghazadeh, A. (eds) Biophysics and Neurophysiology of the Sixth Sense. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10620-1_28
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