Exposure to Virtual Social Stimuli Modulates Subjective Pain Reports

BACKGROUND: 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 wi...

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Main Authors: Jacob M Vigil, Daniel Torres, Alexander Wolff, Katy Hughes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Pain Research and Management
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/815056