Does Pain Necessarily Have an Affective Component? Negative Evidence from Blink Reflex Experiments
Author(s) -
Claudia Horn,
Yvonne Blischke,
Miriam Kunz,
Stefan Lautenbacher
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
pain research and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.702
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1918-1523
pISSN - 1203-6765
DOI - 10.1155/2012/478019
Subject(s) - psychology , context (archaeology) , cognition , pain catastrophizing , tonic (physiology) , sensory system , feeling , audiology , cognitive psychology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , clinical psychology , chronic pain , neuroscience , medicine , social psychology , paleontology , biology
Experimental pain research has shown that the affective component of pain is influenced strongly by situational characteristics; affective pain processing appears to be particularly pronounced in situations that provoke a feeling of uncertainty and uncontrollability.
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