Open AccessDoes Experience Influence Judgements of Pain Behaviour? Evidence from Relatives of Pain Patients and Therapists
Author(s) -
Kenneth M. Prkachin,
Patricia Solomon,
Teresa Hwang,
Susan R. Mercer
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
pain research and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1918-1523
pISSN - 1203-6765
DOI - 10.1155/2001/108098
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , pain catastrophizing , chronic pain , psychology , physical therapy , clinical psychology , medicine , communication
Judgments about an individual's pain can be profoundly important to sufferers. Relatively few studies have examined variables that may affect observers' judgments of the pain of others. The present article reports two studies investigating the relationship between different kinds of exposure to pain problems and observers' ratings of the pain intensity of patients.
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