Pain-Related and Negative Semantic Priming Enhances Perceived Pain Intensity

BACKGROUND: Negative affective and pain-related cues, such as pictures or words, have been shown to act as primes and enhance the perceived intensity of subsequent painful events. For pain-related semantic primes, it remains unclear whether this effect depends on negative valence itself or, specific...

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Main Authors: Maria Richter, Christoph Schroeter, Theresa Puensch, Thomas Straube, Holger Hecht, Alexander Ritter, Wolfgang HR Miltner, Thomas Weiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Pain Research and Management
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/425321
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description BACKGROUND: Negative affective and pain-related cues, such as pictures or words, have been shown to act as primes and enhance the perceived intensity of subsequent painful events. For pain-related semantic primes, it remains unclear whether this effect depends on negative valence itself or, specifically, on the pain-relatedness of the words.
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spelling doaj-art-2b65f966f2e24b47880a58c1755189b62025-02-03T01:31:43ZengWileyPain Research and Management1203-67652014-01-01192697410.1155/2014/425321Pain-Related and Negative Semantic Priming Enhances Perceived Pain IntensityMaria Richter0Christoph Schroeter1Theresa Puensch2Thomas Straube3Holger Hecht4Alexander Ritter5Wolfgang HR Miltner6Thomas Weiss7Department of Psychology, Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, GermanyDepartment of Psychology, Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, GermanyDepartment of Psychology, Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, GermanyDepartment of Psychology, Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, GermanyDepartment of Psychology, Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, GermanyDepartment of Psychology, Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, GermanyDepartment of Psychology, Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, GermanyDepartment of Psychology, Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, GermanyBACKGROUND: Negative affective and pain-related cues, such as pictures or words, have been shown to act as primes and enhance the perceived intensity of subsequent painful events. For pain-related semantic primes, it remains unclear whether this effect depends on negative valence itself or, specifically, on the pain-relatedness of the words.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/425321
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