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I've been reading about how rituals (performed right before a task) increase confidence and readiness for the task, and improve performance by "dulling the neural response to performance failure" (source), and that they work by triggering the placebo effect. This lead me to my question: what is the probability of a ritual to cause this positive effect on a randomly chosen person?

I didn't manage to find any statistics or useful numbers regarding what part of the population is receptive to placebo.

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    Are you talking chances of a 'ritual' to be an effective placebo (little literature available I guess) or the placebo effect in general (larger body of literature)? – AliceD Sep 19 '19 at 07:39
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    @AliceD I'm talking about rituals, but given the option I'd like to know at least the chances of a person to be receptive to placebo since it would give an upper limit to the estimate of ritual's chances to be an effective placebo. – potato Sep 19 '19 at 13:25

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