Competing goals attenuate avoidance behavior in the context of pain

Journal of Pain

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1120-1129

  Claes, Nathalie ^a,b   Karos, Kai ^a   Meulders, Ann ^a   Crombez, Geert ^b   Vlaeyen, Johan W S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Goals; Motivation; Pain related fear; Reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN INTENSITY; PAIN THRESHOLD; QUESTIONNAIRE; REWARD; SELF REPORT; STIMULUS; YOUNG ADULT; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DECISION MAKING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84918567170     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2014.08.003     Document Type: Article

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