After an underpredicted painful experience people tend to expect increased pain levels for a
considerable time, despite disconfirmatory experiences. Underpredictions also tend to raise …

The intensity of a painful stimulus was experimentally manipulated in order to induce
underpredictions of pain. The experiment aimed at (1) replicating previous findings on the …

Previous experimental research on the effects of incorrect intensity expectations of aversive
events can be criticized because intensity expectations were not manipulated independently …

There is a consistent pattern in the way that people predict painful experiences, natural or
contrived, and this pattern resembles the way in which people predict frightening …

One of the explanations for the negative effects of underpredicted aversive experiences is
that they have more impact than correctly predicted aversive experiences. In a laboratory …

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More spifidlly, the hflwenw of emotions, attengond focu $, inmrrwt prealic~ ons of pain …

In order to assess whether the typical patterns of fear prediction, and their consequences,
occur in predictions of pain, a study was conducted on 29 patients suffering from chronic …

Pain is highly modifiable by psychological factors, including expectations. However, pain is
a complex phenomenon, and expectations may work by influencing any number of …

The thoughts and feelings people have about pain (referred to as 'pain expectations') are
known to alter the perception of pain. However little is known about the cognitive processes …

Expectancies can shape pain experiences. Attention for the influence of expectancies on
pain has increased particularly due to research on placebo effects, of which expectancy is …