Stereotyping Bias: The Placebo Effect In Medicine
The cognitive bias, the placebo effect, causes us to believe a medicine or something new will cause a certain change. For example in many medical studies patients are given a medicine and a certain group is given a fake medicine. So when it is time to see the effects the patients with the placebo claim to feel the same as the patient actually taking the medicine. Not only does the placebo effect occur with medicine but it occurs in life when someone changes a something from a new routine. Essentially simply believing that something will have a certain impact on you causes it to have that effect. The stereotyping bias is having a specific idea of what a person character or personal qualities is based off their physical appearance and other