(she/her) PhD student at King’s College London | Experimental psychology | Suggestion effects & suggestibility across contextshttps://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.social/post/3mvamtnrvf22qPassed my PhD viva! 🎓 Huge thanks to my examiners @nathanhuneke.bsky.social and Dr Matt Burke, and my supervisors @devinterhune.bsky.social, Prof James Rubin, and Dr Joel Winston.11 Sep 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:iyldlml75bbbn3let646rrd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvamtnrvf22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.social/post/3murdr5kk2c2wReally great resource if you’re interested in placebo and nocebo research! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:iyldlml75bbbn3let646rrd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3murdr5kk2c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.social/post/3mtsy27vrcs2eNew preprint! 🎉 Can we predict who responds to a placebo? Previous meta-analyses say no... We synthesised the evidence and found that responsiveness to verbal suggestions reliably predicts placebo responding! Big implications for precision medicine & psychiatry... tinyurl.com/3s6282mw https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.20.26360892v124 Aug 2026 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:iyldlml75bbbn3let646rrd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsy27vrcs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.social/post/3mnewtukofc2xNew preprint is up! In this preregistered experiment, we tested the causal role of set and setting and examined whether individual differences could reliably predict these #placebo and #nocebo #psychedelic effects. Check out the full paper! tinyurl.com/2v98ueh8 https://tinyurl.com/2v98ueh803 Jun 2026 10:50 +0000at://did:plc:iyldlml75bbbn3let646rrd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnewtukofc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.social/post/3mbomxge6lk2oMy final publication of 2025 🎉 New review out with @nihr-hprfa-orb.bsky.social TL;DR: Future outbreaks (e.g., mpox) will keep requiring HCWs to self-isolate after exposure—but we still lack evidence-based interventions to protect their wellbeing. Time to fix that. tinyurl.com/3ywf4334 https://academic.oup.com/occmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/occmed/kqaf124/840785905 Jan 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:iyldlml75bbbn3let646rrd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbomxge6lk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.social/post/3lxtsfdnb3s26we are still recruiting! healthy uk adults based in #london, come get your #eeg measured while inhaling #nitrousoxide or medical air02 Sep 2025 09:26 +0000at://did:plc:iyldlml75bbbn3let646rrd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxtsfdnb3s26https://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.social/post/3lv3zx4c3kc2f@devinterhune.bsky.social and I have a new invited paper out in the #IJCEH. if you're interested in #psychedelics, #hypnosis, #suggestion, #placebo or #nocebo effects—this is worth a read 🤓 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00207144.2025.250196429 Jul 2025 11:47 +0000at://did:plc:iyldlml75bbbn3let646rrd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv3zx4c3kc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.social/post/3lrvfghyw2226Had a great time at @sipsplacebo.bsky.social 2025 w/ my supervisor @devinterhune.bsky.social 🥳 i presented two meta-analyses on responsiveness to verbal suggestions (REVS) in #placebo and #nocebo responding & one experiment looking at suggestion effects & REVS in placebo #psychedelic responding.18 Jun 2025 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:iyldlml75bbbn3let646rrd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrvfghyw2226https://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.social/post/3llqwcsn4xs2gFive years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic - & we’re still learning from its legacy. This review was led by @alexfmartin.bsky.social & synthesised evidence from 36 studies examining how #selfisolation impacted #wellbing in adults. Very important work! https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.031085101 Apr 2025 12:56 +0000at://did:plc:iyldlml75bbbn3let646rrd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3llqwcsn4xs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.social/post/3llgyhnknms2awe have another new #meta-analysis out now in Personality & Individual Differences. 🎉 Hopefully this work will put to rest ongoing debates about the nature of #hypnotic vs non-hypnotic #suggestibility. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692500143628 Mar 2025 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:iyldlml75bbbn3let646rrd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3llgyhnknms2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/madelinestein.bsky.social/post/3llc2bn235c25I'm giving a talk on #suggestion and #suggestibility next week at the University of Ljubljana as part of a series on #DemandCharacteristics. Should be really fun and is being hosted by the Laboratory of Empirical Phenomenology. 😊 If you're based in #Ljubljana feel free to stop by!! https://www.curious.si/general-526 Mar 2025 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:iyldlml75bbbn3let646rrd3/app.bsky.feed.post/3llc2bn235c25