Offspring of parents with chronic pain are at increased risk for pain and adverse mental and
physical health outcomes (Higgins et al, 2015). Although the association between chronic …

Forty years ago, three quarters of adults and children diagnosed with cancer died. Today,
almost half of adults77 and three quarters of children survive. 17, 70 Survival, however, is …

A large number of publications have focused on the study of pain expressions. Despite the
growing knowledge, the availability of pain-related face databases is still very scarce …

Cognitive models of chronic pain emphasize the critical role of pain catastrophizing in
attentional bias to pain-related stimuli. The aim of this study was (a) to investigate the …

Attention bias is a new approach to assessing animal affect that has shown promising
results in several animal species. It describes a tendency to preferentially attend to …

Background Pain is common and can be debilitating in childhood. Theoretical models
propose that attention to pain plays a key role in pain outcomes, however, very little research …

Negative interpretation bias, the tendency to appraise ambiguous situations in a negative or
threatening way, has been suggested to be important for the development of adult chronic …

Cognitive biases that emphasize bodily harm, injury, and illness could play a role in the
maintenance of chronic pain by facilitating fear and avoidance. Whereas extensive research …

Background Vocalization is often used to assess pain, sometimes combined with other
behaviours such as facial expressions. Contrary to facial expressions, however, for …

Introduction: This study investigated the time course of attention to pain and examined the
moderating effect of attentional control in the relationship between pain catastrophizing and …