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Volume 144, Issue 1 , Pages 28-34 , July 2009

Placebo analgesia induced by social observational learning

Received 10 November 2008 ,Revised 20 January 2009 ,Accepted 29 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.01.033

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