Threat of pain influences social context effects on verbal pain report and facial expression

• Published in: Behaviour research and therapy Vol. 47; no. 9; pp. 774 - 782
• Main Authors: Vlaeyen, Johan W.S., Hanssen, Marjolein, Goubert, Liesbet, Vervoort, Tine, Peters, Madelon, van Breukelen, Gerard, Sullivan, Michael J.L., Morley, Stephen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2009; Elsevier; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Adult; Behavior; Biological and medical sciences; Catastrophization; Cognition. Intelligence; Cognitive appraisal model; Communal coping model; Discriminant analysis; Emotions; Face; Facial Expression; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Male; Miscellaneous; Pain; Pain - psychology; Pain behavior; Pain catastrophizing; Pain Measurement - methods; Perceived threats; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Recovery; Safety behaviors social context; Self Report; Social context; Social Environment; Threat of pain; Validation studies; Safety behaviors social context; Pain catastrophizing; Communal coping model; Threat of pain; Pain behavior; Cognitive appraisal model; Social environment; Affect affectivity; Social influence; Cognition; Catastrophic thinking; Social behavior; Pain; Theoretical model; Language; Coping; Face; Verbalization; Cognitive appraisal; Human; Healthy subject; Emotion emotionality; Experimental study; Cognitive theory; Facial expression

Current theoretical models of pain catastrophizing have diverging predictions regarding the role of social context and perceived threat on pain expression. The communal coping model of catastrophizing predicts that high pain catastrophizers display more pain expression in the presence of another, re...