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Overview

Andrew L. Geers is affiliated with the University of Toledo in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study, with a particular focus on neuroscience and medicine. Predominantly, their work relates to cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry and mental health, alongside contributions in clinical psychology, complementary and alternative medicine, and applied psychology.

The scientist's research topics include pain management and placebo effect, empathy and medical education, complementary and alternative medicine studies, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, behavioral health and interventions, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and neuroscience education and cognitive function.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • BMC Psychology
  • Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Andrew L. Geers has collaborated often with several co-authors, such as Kelly S. Clemens, Kate Faasse, Ben Colagiuri, Luana Colloca, and Lene Vase.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Andrew L. Geers are:

  • Affect and emotions in placebo and nocebo effects: What do we know so far? (2020), published in Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • Psychosocial Factors Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects (2021), published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Other notable recent publications relevant to the broader field include:

  • What Should Clinicians Tell Patients about Placebo and Nocebo Effects? Practical Considerations Based on Expert Consensus (2020), Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • European Headache Federation recommendations for placebo and nocebo terminology (2020), The Journal of Headache and Pain
  • Determinants of safety-focused product purchasing in the United States at the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic (2020), Safety Science

Best Publications

  • Implications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus.

    Andrea W M Evers;Luana Colloca;Charlotte Blease;Marco Annoni

  • Reconsidering the role of personality in placebo effects: dispositional optimism, situational expectations, and the placebo response.

    Andrew L. Geers;Suzanne G. Helfer;Kristin Kosbab;Paul E. Weiland

  • Goal activation, expectations, and the placebo effect.

    Andrew L. Geers;Paul E. Weiland;Kristin Kosbab;Sarah J. Landry

  • Dispositional optimism predicts placebo analgesia.

    Andrew L. Geers;Justin A. Wellman;Stephanie L. Fowler;Suzanne G. Helfer

  • Getting to know you: Face-to-face versus online interactions

    Bradley M. Okdie;Rosanna E. Guadagno;Frank J. Bernieri;Andrew L. Geers

  • Further evidence for individual differences in placebo responding: an interactionist perspective.

    Andrew L. Geers;Kristin Kosbab;Suzanne G. Helfer;Paul E. Weiland

  • Dispositional optimism and engagement: the moderating influence of goal prioritization.

    Andrew L. Geers;Justin A. Wellman;G. Daniel Lassiter

  • Affective expectations and information gain: Evidence for assimilation and contrast effects in affective experience.

    Andrew L. Geers;G.Daniel Lassiter

  • Expectations and Placebo Response: A Laboratory Investigation into the Role of Somatic Focus

    Andrew L. Geers;Suzanne G. Helfer;Paul E. Weiland;Kristin Kosbab

  • Videotaped interrogations and confessions: a simple change in camera perspective alters verdicts in simulated trials.

    G. Daniel Lassiter;Andrew L. Geers;Ian M. Handley;Paul E. Weiland

  • Illusory Causation: Why It Occurs

    G. Daniel Lassiter;Andrew L. Geers;Patrick J. Munhall;Robert J. Ploutz-Snyder

  • Mixed-handed persons are more easily persuaded and are more gullible: Interhemispheric interaction and belief updating

    Stephen D Christman;Bradley R Henning;Andrew L Geers;Ruth E Propper

  • Optimistic expectations in early marriage: a resource or vulnerability for adaptive relationship functioning?

    Lisa Ann Neff;Andrew L. Geers

  • Effects of Affective Expectations on Affective Experience: The Moderating Role of Optimism-Pessimism

    Andrew L. Geers;G. Daniel Lassiter

  • Why does choice enhance treatment effectiveness? Using placebo treatments to demonstrate the role of personal control.

    Andrew L. Geers;Jason P. Rose;Stephanie L. Fowler;Heather M. Rasinski

  • Dispositional optimism and thoughts of well-being determine sensitivity to an experimental pain task.

    Andrew L. Geers;Justin A. Wellman;Suzanne G. Helfer;Stephanie L. Fowler

  • Can Positive Framing Reduce Nocebo Side Effects? Current Evidence and Recommendation for Future Research.

    Kirsten Barnes;Kate Faasse;Andrew L. Geers;Suzanne G. Helfer

  • Discerning the role of optimism in persuasion: the valence-enhancement hypothesis.

    Andrew L Geers;Ian M Handley;Amber R McLarney

  • Affect and exercise: positive affective expectations can increase post-exercise mood and exercise intentions

    Suzanne G. Helfer;Jon D. Elhai;Andrew L. Geers

  • Videotaped confessions: Is guilt in the eye of the camera?

    G. Daniel Lassiter;Andrew L. Geers;Patrick J. Munhall;Ian M. Handley

  • Optimism, Pessimism, and Friendship

    Andrew L. Geers;Sean P. Reilley;William N. Dember

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Colagiuri
Ben Colagiuri University of Sydney
Irving Kirsch
Irving Kirsch Harvard University
Joseph D. Hovey
Joseph D. Hovey The University of Texas at Austin
Jon D. Elhai
Jon D. Elhai University of Toledo
Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg
Louise Sharpe
Louise Sharpe University of Sydney
Jens Gaab
Jens Gaab University of Basel
Matthew T. Tull
Matthew T. Tull University of Toledo
Pablo Briñol
Pablo Briñol Autonomous University of Madrid
Keith J. Petrie
Keith J. Petrie University of Auckland

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