Cognitive Control of Pain: Four Serendipitous Results
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 44 (2) , 569-570
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1977.44.2.569
Abstract
The experiment was designed to determine whether specific cognitive strategies are effective in reducing pain. Subjects were tested either on cold pain or pressure pain. Although the cognitive strategies did not significantly alter pain tolerance or pain intensity, the following four findings emerged: (a) males and females responded in a similar manner to the painful stimuli, (b) both the experimental subjects and the controls had surprisingly high tolerance of pain, (c) subjects typically generated their own thoughts and images to control pain, and (d) subjects responded to cold pain and to pressure pain in a similar manner.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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