Feeling more pain, yet showing less: The influence of social threat on pain

Journal of Pain

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1255-1261

  Peeters, Pim A M ^a   Vlaeyen, Johan W S ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

evolutionary psychology; facial expression; pain expression; Social context; social threat; threat of pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATASTROPHIZING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL THREAT; THREAT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; CATASTROPHIZATION; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82755163546     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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