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The effects of hypnotic susceptibility, suggestions for analgesia, and the utilization of cognitive strategies on the reduction of pain.

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This article is published in Journal of Abnormal Psychology.The article was published on 1979-06-01. It has received 228 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hypnotic susceptibility.

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The Pain Catastrophizing Scale: Development and validation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) was administered to 425 undergraduates and a three component solution comprising (a) rumination, (b) magnification, and (c) helplessness.
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The use of coping strategies in chronic low back pain patients: Relationship to patient characteristics and current adjustment

TL;DR: Cognitive and behavioral pain coping strategies were assessed by means of questionnaire in a sample of 61 chronic low back pain patients and three factors were found to be predictive of measures of behavioral and emotional adjustment to chronic pain above and beyond what may be predicted on the basis of patient history variables.
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Theoretical perspectives on the relation between catastrophizing and pain.

TL;DR: It is suggested that catastrophizing might best be viewed from the perspective of hierarchical levels of analysis, where social factors and social goals may play a role in the development and maintenance of catastrophize, whereas appraisal-related processes may point to the mechanisms that link catastrophization to pain experience.
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Pain catastrophizing: a critical review

TL;DR: This work focuses on the conceptualization of pain catastrophizing, highlighting its conceptual history and potential problem areas, and discusses a number of theoretical mechanisms of action: appraisal theory, attention bias/information processing, communal coping, CNS pain processing mechanisms, psychophysiological pathways and neural pathways.
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Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale

TL;DR: The Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) has recently been developed to assess three components of catastrophizing: rumination, magnification, and helplessness and the ability of the PCS and subscales to differentiate between the responses of clinic and nonclinic undergraduate samples is evaluated.
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Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that people are sometimes unaware of the existence of a stimulus that influenced a response, unaware of its existence, and unaware that the stimulus has affected the response.
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On the social psychology of the psychological experiment: With particular reference to demand characteristics and their implications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on some of the qualities peculiar to psychological experiments and point out that the demand characteristics perceived in any particular experiment will vary with the sophistication, intelligence, and previous experience of each experimental subject.
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Hypnosis In The Relief Of Pain

TL;DR: This book presents a perspective on the Hypnotic Control of Pain from the standpoint of Dentistry, as well as investigating the role of hypnosis in the treatment of cancer and other chronic pain conditions.
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