Clinical trials: Expectations
Caffeine, Affect
Evaluating the Role of Expectations in Response to Caffeine Consumption: An RCT
The purpose of this project is to examine the effect of expectancy on mood and alertness after consumption of caffeine "treatment" or placebo "control" pill, given that participants know their probability for receiving the…
- Conditions
- Caffeine, Affect, Cognitive Ability, General, Mood
- Trial name
- NCT02461693
- Testing
- Caffeine
- Volunteers
- 205 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Anxiety Disorders
Expectation of Unpleasant Events in Anxiety Disorders
Fear and anxiety are normal responses to a threat. However, anxiety is considered abnormal when the response to the threat is excessive or inappropriate.
- Trial name
- NCT00055224
- Testing
- Threat of shock
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 921 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Healthy
N-of-few Study of Pain Perception
A behavioral study that will examine how pain perception is affected by different types of conditioning and by context, with a few participants and multiple sessions ("N-of-few" design).
- Trial name
- NOF (NCT04664400)
- Testing
- Symbolic conditioning, Conditioning, Instructions
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Trustees of Dartmouth College
Placebo, Expectations
Effects of Expectations on Negative Affect, Perceived Cognitive Effort, and Pain
The investigators administer a functional neuroimaging task to investigate the effect of cue expectancy on participants' self-reported ratings across a variety of affective and cognitive domains.
- Trial name
- NCT05425563
- Testing
- Pain Expectancy Cues, Vicarious Pain Expectancy Cues, Cognitive Effort Expectancy Cues
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 133 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Trustees of Dartmouth College
Expectations, Motor Learning
Priming Expectations and Motor Learning With tDCS
The purpose of this study is to test if priming expectations of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) can improve the efficacy of tDCS in enhancing motor learning.
- Trial name
- NCT06039605
- Testing
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 140 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Arizona State University
Stress-related Problems
Effects of Stress-reducing Aromatherapy
The study purpose is to evaluate efficacy of stress-reducing aromatherapy and learn about how aromatherapy works.
- Trial name
- NCT01307748
- Testing
- aroma
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 92 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Oregon Health and Science University
Caries, Dental, Health Behavior
Interactive Parent-Targeted Text Messaging in Pediatric Clinics to Reduce Caries Among Urban Children
This is a randomized clinical trial to test the efficacy of a parent-targeted text message-based intervention program on caries incidence and oral health behaviors (child and parent).
- Trial name
- iSmile (NCT03294590)
- Testing
- OHT Parent targeted text messages, CWT Parent targeted text messages
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 754 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University
Pain
The Neurobiology of Expectancy and Pain Perception
This study will use using fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to elucidate how contextual learning/expectation relieves or aggravates pain experience in the same cohort of subjects and the same study session.
- Trial name
- NCT01575106
- Testing
- Heat pain applied using TSA or CHEPS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Medication Adherence
Balanced Placebo Design With Varenicline: Pharmacological and Expectancy Effects on Medication Adherence
The current study will use the double-blind balanced placebo design to examine differences between expectancies versus the pharmacological effects of varenicline medication administered for two weeks to cigarette smokers.
- Trial name
- NCT03538808
- Testing
- Varenicline
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Infant Behavior
Babies' Expectations About Racial Interactions
This study will examine whether infants view race as an inductively useful social cue to predict third-party social relationships.
- Trial name
- BEARI (NCT05324007)
- Testing
- Basic Science
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 128 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Osteoarthritis
Pain Expectations in Subjects With Osteoarthritis
The purpose of this research study is to test whether or not researchers can alter or change expectations on pain. The researchers will test whether there is an effect on the size of the pupil and responses to thermal heat…
- Trial name
- NCT02155257
- Testing
- Modafinil, Gabapentin
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Fear Pain
Human Behaviors Related to the Expectation of Pain
The conditioned expectation of pain is an important aspect of pain-related disability produced by environments and stimuli associated with a painful injury on the job, although the neuroscience of this expectation is unclear.
- Trial name
- NCT03739645
- Testing
- Skin conductance levels and slopes over time in conditioned fear as metrics.as metrics for anxiety
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Expectancy Versus Pharmacotherapy Effect of Adderall
Neuroimaging the Expectancy Versus Pharmacotherapy Effect of Adderall on Cognitive Performance
The purpose of this balanced-placebo design study is to pilot a larger study to further explore the current evidence that stimulant medications are not cognitive enhancers, despite this rampant belief in young adults.
- Trial name
- NCT03530631
- Testing
- Adderall
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 4 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Alcohol; Use, Problem
Alcohol & Mobile Phone Study to Reduce High-risk Alcohol Use and Consequences
The proposed study will develop a smartphone/mobile app intervention that incorporates ecological momentary assessment (i.e., two brief surveys per day) and daily intervention messaging (2 messages per day) for three weeks to…
- Trial name
- AMPS (NCT04213846)
- Testing
- Experimental: Mobile Alcohol Expectancy Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 408 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Gratitude + No Expectations, Gratitude + Expectations
The Effects of Manipulating Expectations in a Gratitude Intervention
Gratitude - an emotion felt when an individual receives something beneficial from other people or entities - has been shown to positively affect well-being.
- Conditions
- Gratitude + No Expectations, Gratitude + Expectations, Events Control
- Trial name
- NCT03784001
- Testing
- Gratitude + No Expectations Intervention, Gratitude + Expectations Intervention, Events Control Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 125 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
HIV/AIDS, Chronic HIV Infection
Life Plans Intervention Study
The mass provision of HIV treatment in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa has raised adult life expectancy by 18 years since 2003.
- Conditions
- HIV/AIDS, Chronic HIV Infection, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Trial name
- NCT03215901
- Testing
- A Beautiful Future Video, Active Control Video
- Where
- South Africa
- Volunteers
- 430 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University
Perception Disturbance, Visual Suppression
Visual Surround Suppression and Perceptual Expectation Under Psilocybin
The prospective pilot study will address the critical need for more precise characterizations of the acute visual effects of the drug psilocybin by measuring the impact of acute psilocybin intoxication on a perceptual task known…
- Conditions
- Perception Disturbance, Visual Suppression, Psychedelic Experiences
- Trial name
- NCT04424225
- Testing
- Psilocybin, Niacin
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota