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The importance of context: when relative relief renders pain pleasant.
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Context can influence the experience of any event. For instance, the thought that "it could be worse" can improve feelings towards a present misfortune. In this study we measured hedonic feelings, skin conductance, and brain activation patterns in 16 healthy volunteers who experienced moderate pain in two different contexts. In the "relative relief context," moderate pain represented the best outcome, since the alternative outcome was intense pain. However, in the control context, moderate pa...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.pain.2012.11.018
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Pain More from this journal
- Volume:
- 154
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 402-410
- Publication date:
- 2013-03-01
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1872-6623
- ISSN:
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0304-3959
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English
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pubs:375823
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375823
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2013-11-16
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- Copyright holder:
- International Association for the Study of Pain
- Copyright date:
- 2013
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- Copyright © 2012 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. Open access under CC BY license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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