Why do people tend to overpredict pain? On the asymmetries between underpredictions and overpredictions of pain

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 545-554

  Arntz, Arnoud ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPECTATION; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PREDICTION; TIME;

EID: 0030198447     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0005-7967(96)00016-2     Document Type: Article

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