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Parents of autistic children are particularly [vulnerable to placebo effects](https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/trials-autism-treatments-placebo-problem/), says [Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele](https://www.spectrumnews.org/author/jeremy/), professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York who was not involved in the trial. The placebo effect is amplified when parents pay to participate or when the therapy is invasive, because parents are invested in having the treatment work, he says.
Experts Question Rationale for Stem Cell Trial for Autism | the Scientist Magazine®
Hannah Furfaro
Instead, Watson, in his post-academic writings (e.g., Watson 1924), asserted that uncontrolled and unintentional parental (especially maternal) behaviors were the sole influences on the character development of children. Watson exhorted parents (again, especially mothers) to program their interactions with their children in such a way as to produce desirable character development, where “desir- able,” broadly construed, meant “socially useful.”
Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories
Robert W. Rieber
(World Fantasy tickets are not refundable, and several recent WFCs have had harassment and accessibility polices that could most charitably be called ‘inadequate’).
The Geek’s Guide to Disability | the Bias
thebias.com
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