Objectives: Information-processing biases such as attentional, interpretation, and memory
biases are supposed to play a role in the exacerbation and maintenance of chronic pain …

Contemporary cognitive-affective accounts of (chronic) pain posit that cognitive biases-
referring to a distortion in the way people process incoming information and consisting of …

Contemporary models explaining the exacerbation and maintenance of pain, disability, and
distress assign a pivotal role to cognitive biases. These models assume that cognitive …

Purpose The cognitive mediation hypothesis describes the influence of psychological factors
on the relationship between pain and depression such as cognitions of catastrophizing and …

Psychological models of chronic pain (CP) highlight cognitive-processing biases (ie,
attentional biases, interpretation biases, and attentional control) as pivotal processes that …

Chronic pain adversely affects individuals' physical as well as emotional well-being. Despite
the recent advances in the treatment of pain, the cure of pain remains ambiguous. The …

Pain-related cognitive biases have been demonstrated in chronic pain patients, yet despite
theoretical predictions are rarely investigated in combination. Combined cognitive biases …

Objectives: Pain-related cognitive content (what people think about pain) and cognitive
processes (how people think about pain; what they do with their pain-related thoughts) and …

Background Pain catastrophizing is linked to a range of negative health and treatment
outcomes, although debate continues about how best to define and treat it, since most …

Background Cognitive appraisals, most notably pain catastrophizing, play an important role
in chronic pain. The role of metacognition and its impact on the relationship between pain …