Background: Increasing evidence for the efficacy of analgesic placebo effects in laboratory
studies with healthy persons raises the question whether placebos could be used to improve …

Acceptance-based regulation of pain, which focuses on the allowing of pain and pain
related thoughts and emotions, was found to modulate pain. However, results so far are …

Objective. In this study, we were interested in determining whether we could alter a pain
response in a chronic pain patient population by exposing participants to different videos …

Recent experimental data show that associative learning processes are involved not only in
the acquisition but also in the spreading of pain-related fear. Clinical studies suggest …

The present analog study compared the effectiveness of an acceptance-and control-based
intervention on pain tolerance using a cold pressor task, and is a partial replication and …

Acceptance of chronic pain varies between patients but may also be expected to develop
and change within patients. In this latter framework, the present study explored three …

Background and aims: Chronic pain affects an estimated 1 in 10 adults globally regardless
of age, gender, ethnicity, income or geography. Chronic pain, a multifactorial problem …

This study investigated observational learning of pain-related fear and subsequent
extinction after first-hand exposure to the feared stimulus. Moreover, the specific …

The present study investigated the influence of sensory focusing and distraction on pain
tolerance and self-reported pain intensity in healthy female university students ranking high …

Background The relatively stable individual differences reflected in Grey's revised
reinforcement sensitivity theory (rRST), with foundations in neurophysiology and learning …