"Respond as if it worked" meaning that they would answer your questions coherently, as though he or she thought the sugar pill actually worked. Moreover, of course it doesn't work as it is portrayed in television. Hypnosis is hardly even real, as it in itself is essentially one huge placebo.
I know it doens't require medication, but this is what I want to know. If *this* would work. The context of the situation I would apply this experiment to is much more appropriate for this experiment than I may be letting you know.
Why?
I agree. To the OP, you will need to do more research on the theoretical and experimental background of hypnosis before proposing it as a construct in any type of experiment. From a dynamic sense, hypnosis works to access co-existing self states in a person...however this is theoretical, as we have no way of proving the existence of multiplicity of selves without inquiry which is filtered through one's perception (and subsequently affected by the mulitude of physiological, psychological, experimental and social determinants). To ask if a placebo can impact the outcome of hypnosis is a theoretically incomplete inquiry... the answer could be maybe. You need to narrow your research question down to a more specific frame based on existing literature.
