Pain and disgust: the facial signaling of two aversive bodily experiences.

The experience of pain and disgust share many similarities, given that both are aversive experiences resulting from bodily threat and leading to defensive reactions. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether facial expressions are distinct enough to encode the specific quality of pain...

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Main Authors: Miriam Kunz, Jessica Peter, Sonja Huster, Stefan Lautenbacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3857299?pdf=render