Promelute, a pharmaceutical company, conducts a research on participants for its new drug for obsessive-compulsive disorder. But the experimenter is unclear about the conclusions of the study because he is not sure if the improvement has been caused by the properties of the drug or by the participants' expectations about the effect of the drug. Such an effect is known as a(n) _____ effect.

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The effect described is the placebo effect, which is when participants experience an improvement in symptoms or condition not because of the properties of the drug or treatment, but because of their expectations or beliefs about the treatment.

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