Theories disagree about whether a verbal warning for pain has a detrimental or beneficial
effect on the impact of an actual pain stimulus. Scheme-based theories predict a detrimental …

Cognitive theories regarding symptom formation suggest that environmental factors such as
warnings of impending pain and earlier experiences with pain can lead to a cognitive …

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

This paper reports an experimental investigation of engagement with and disengagement
from a threatening cue of pain. As most paradigms in pain research only provide an overall …

The purpose of the present research was to examine the influence of communication goals
and physical demands on the expression of communicative (eg, facial grimaces) and …

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

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 …

To investigate pain that occurs in the absence of painful stimulation, normal subjects were
connected to a sham stimulator and were told that a headache could occur as a result of the …

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 …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new psychophysical procedure for the objective
measurement of experimental pain. This technique, known as “signal detection theory,” or …