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The emotional stroop task and chronic pain: what is threatening for chronic pain sufferers?
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Using a computer version of the emotional stroop task, it was investigated whether chronic pain patients display an involuntary attentional shift towards pain‐related information (sensory, affective pain words and injury related words) and indicated that there was an attentional bias towards the sensory pain words.About:
This article is published in European Journal of Pain.The article was published on 2000-03-01. It has received 86 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pain catastrophizing & Chronic pain.read more
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Cognitive-processing bias in chronic pain: a review and integration.
Tamar Pincus,Stephen Morley +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that biases in information processing in chronic pain are the result of overlap between 3 schemas: pain, illness, and self, and processing biases that extend beyond this healthy and adaptive process to enmesh the self-schema with pain and illness schemas could maintain and exacerbate distress and illness behavior in patients with chronic pain.
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Keeping pain in mind: a motivational account of attention to pain
TL;DR: It is argued that pain always has to be considered within a context of goal pursuit, and this motivational perspective offers a powerful framework to explain inter- and intra-individual differences in the deployment of attention to pain-related information.
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Attentional bias to pain-related information: A meta-analysis
TL;DR: This meta‐analysis investigated whether attentional bias, that is, the preferential allocation of attention to information that is related to pain, is a ubiquitous phenomenon, and indicated that individuals who experience chronic pain display an attentional biased towards pain‐related words or pictures.
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Selective attentional bias for pain-related stimuli amongst pain fearful individuals
TL;DR: The results indicate that one reason why those with a high fear of pain are particularly susceptible to negative pain experiences could be due to biased attentional processes.
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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 McGill Pain Questionnaire: major properties and scoring methods.
TL;DR: The McGill Pain Questionnaire as discussed by the authors consists of three major classes of word descriptors (sensory, affective and evaluative) that are used by patients to specify subjective pain experience.
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The McGill Pain Questionnaire: major properties and scoring methods.
TL;DR: The data indicate that the McGill Pain Questionnaire provides quantitative information that can be treated statistically, and is sufficiently sensitive to detect differences among different methods to relieve pain.
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Measurement, Design and Analysis: An Integrated Approach
TL;DR: A survey of approaches to measurement in socobehavioral research can be found in this paper, where the authors present a survey of the most common approaches to measuring in sociology research.
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Measurement, Design, and Analysis: An Integrated Approach
TL;DR: Aiming to remedy what they see as the fragmentary nature of texts on statistics, the authors of this textbook explore both design and analytic questions, and analytic and measurement issues.
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