Nocebo: The psychologic induction of pain
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in The Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science
- Vol. 16 (3) , 140-143
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03003218
Abstract
More than two-thirds of an unselected sample of 34 college students reported mild headaches when told that a (nonexistent) electric current was passing through their heads. These reports appeared independent of whether the instructions emphasized the headache-producing effect of the current or whether the emphasis was on a perceptual task, with headache as only a possible side effect. The results are consistent with a view of pain as localized stress. They provide additional grounds for the suspicion that clinical focusing on pain may itself be a cause of pain.Keywords
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