Purpose Expectations and modification gained through critical learning influence pain
perception. We tested how pain tolerability was influenced by the effects of orally delivered …

Background Long‐term avoidance of painful activities has shown to be dysfunctional in
chronic pain. Pain may elicit escape or avoidance responses automatically, particularly …

Background Primary appraisals of pain as a potential threat influence pain perception and
coping but comparatively less is known about related effects of challenge appraisals or …

Validation has been examined in experimental and clinical settings, but examination of
whether specific content of validation responses affect pain-related outcomes has not been …

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Prior research has demonstrated the role of perceived control
and self-efficacy beliefs over pain in reducing pain and pain-related disability. The present …

Chronic pain patients are often confronted with repeated failure to achieve pain relief. The
aim of this study was to experimentally investigate the effects of repeated failing attempts to …

This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of implicit attention re-training (AR) on pain
ratings, threshold and tolerance during the cold-pressor task and to determine whether the …

This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of an attention training technique (ATT) on pain
ratings, threshold and tolerance during the cold pressor task. One hundred and three …

Objective The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of pain severity on activity
levels and physical disability in the context of high pain acceptance. We hypothesized that …

Prominent clinical models of chronic pain propose a fundamental role of classical
conditioning in the development of pain-related disability. If classical conditioning is key to …