Social influences on individual differences in responding to pain

Pain: Psychological Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 179-208

  Skevington, Suzanne M ^a   Mason, Victoria L ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410609861     Document Type: Chapter

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