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Winning or not losing? The impact of non-pain goal focus on attentional bias to learned pain signals.

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This experiment aimed to replicate the finding that attentional bias for pain signals in healthy participants can be reduced when a non-pain goal is pursued, and to extend this finding by taking into account the outcome focus of the non- pain goal.
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This article is published in Scandinavian Journal of Pain.The article was published on 2018-10-25 and is currently open access. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Attentional bias & Cognitive bias.

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The Psychology of Fear and Stress

Rudolph W. Schulz
- 01 Jul 1974 - 
TL;DR: The Psychology of Fear and Stress by Jeffrey A. Gray as discussed by the authors is a well-known topic in contemporary psychology. In this book, the author has provided a readable, accurate, and contemporary treatment of his topic.
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Cognitive biases in pain: an integrated functional-contextual framework.

TL;DR: This work aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMT in the context of clinical practice and to provide a basis for future research in this area.
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Pain Unstuck: The Role of Action and Motivation.

TL;DR: In taking a wide view of pain and action, this review places the relationship between pain, motivation and action at its core, unpicking a dynamic process that can become stuck.
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Sex Differences Linking Pain-Related Fear and Interoceptive Hypervigilance: Attentional Biases to Conditioned Threat and Safety Signals in a Visceral Pain Model.

TL;DR: Results provide first evidence that pain-related fear conditioning may induce attentional biases differentially in healthy women and men, and suggest sex differences may play a role in attentional mechanisms underlying hypervigilance, and may be modulated by psychological vulnerability factors relevant to chronic visceral pain.
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Fearful thinking predicts hypervigilance towards pain-related stimuli in patients with chronic pain.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that patients with chronic pain have increased attention towards pain-related information, and the fearful thinking about pain was positively correlated with this phenomenon.
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Attentional control and the competition between nonpain goals and the threat of pain.

TL;DR: Trait attentional control was predicted to be associated with stronger attentional bias towards goal‐ related information particularly in the presence of pain‐related information particularly when the other competing information was presented simultaneously.
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