Through an evaluative conditioning procedure, researchers combined images of patients with positive, negative or neutral personal traits. The observers rated the pain of each patient after seeing videos of the patients presenting with varying levels of pain.
The researchers found lower pain estimations and lower perceptual sensitivity toward pain for the patients who were associated with negative traits. The difference in pain estimation was only true for high-level pain.
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