Open AccessExposure to Virtual Social Stimuli Modulates Subjective Pain Reports
Author(s) -
Jacob M. Vigil,
Daniel M. Torres,
Alexander Wolff,
Katy Hughes
Publication year - 2014
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 - 10.1155/2014/815056
Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus modality , perception , audiology , developmental psychology , medicine , neuroscience
Contextual factors, including the gender of researchers, influence experimental and patient pain reports. It is currently not known how social stimuli influence pain percepts, nor which types of sensory modalities of communication, such as auditory, visual or olfactory cues associated with person perception and gender processing, produce these effects.
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