Pain-Related and Negative Semantic Priming Enhances Perceived Pain Intensity

BACKGROUND: Negative affective and pain-related cues, such as pictures or words, have been shown to act as primes and enhance the perceived intensity of subsequent painful events. For pain-related semantic primes, it remains unclear whether this effect depends on negative valence itself or, specific...

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Main Authors: Maria Richter, Christoph Schroeter, Theresa Puensch, Thomas Straube, Holger Hecht, Alexander Ritter, Wolfgang HR Miltner, Thomas Weiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Pain Research and Management
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/425321
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Summary:BACKGROUND: Negative affective and pain-related cues, such as pictures or words, have been shown to act as primes and enhance the perceived intensity of subsequent painful events. For pain-related semantic primes, it remains unclear whether this effect depends on negative valence itself or, specifically, on the pain-relatedness of the words.
ISSN:1203-6765