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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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Success/Failure Feedback, Expectancies, and Approach/Avoidance Motivation: How Regulatory Focus Moderates Classic Relations

TL;DR: The authors found that success-related approach motivation and increased expectancies are more likely to occur when performers are in a promotion than a prevention focus and that failure-related avoidance motivation and decreased expectancies were more likely when performers were in a prevention than a promotion focus.
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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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Disengagement from pain: the role of catastrophic thinking about pain

TL;DR: It is found that the effect of cueing upon target detection was differential for high and low pain catastrophizers, and that catastrophic thinking enhances the attentional demand of pain, particularly resulting in difficulty disengaging from pain.
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Coping with pain: a motivational perspective.

TL;DR: It is argued that coping will only proveuseful as a concept, both theoretically and clinically, if it can operationalize it within a motivational context, and to perturbate and to provoke further inquiry into humanadaptivity in adversity.
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