Pain and Emotion: Effects of Affective Picture Modulation
作者:
Mary Meagher, PhD,
Randolph Arnau,
Jamie Rhudy,
期刊:
Psychosomatic Medicine
(OVID Available online 2001)
卷期:
Volume 63,
issue 1
页码: 79-90
ISSN:0033-3174
年代: 2001
出版商: OVID
关键词: emotion induction,;cold pressor,;pain modulation,;pain tolerance,;pain threshold,;affect.
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Objective and MethodsTwo experiments examined the impact of viewing unpleasant, pleasant, and neutral photographic slides on cold-pain perception in healthy men and women. In each experiment, participants viewed one of three slide shows (experiment 1 = fear, disgust, or neutral; experiment 2 = erotic, nurturant, or neutral) immediately before a cold-pressor task. Skin conductance and heart rate were recorded during the slide shows, whereas visual analog scale ratings of pain intensity and unpleasantness thresholds and pain tolerance were recorded during the cold-pressor task.ResultsViewing fear and disgust slides decreased pain intensity and unpleasantness thresholds, but only the fear slides decreased pain tolerance. In contrast, viewing erotic, but not nurturant, slides increased pain intensity and unpleasantness threshold ratings on the visual analog scale in men, whereas neither nurturant nor erotic slides altered pain tolerance.ConclusionsThese results are consistent with a motivational priming model that predicts that unpleasant affective states should enhance pain and that pleasant affective states should attenuate it.
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