Biological sex and social setting affects pain intensity and observational coding of other people's pain behaviors

Pain

Volumn 152, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2125-2130

  Vigil, Jacob M ^a   Coulombe, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Audience effects; Evolutionary psychology; Pain perception; Sex differences; Social situation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISCHEMIC PAIN; MALE; NOCICEPTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN PERCEPTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051784729     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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