Pain threshold - measure of pain sensitivity or social behavior?

Pain threshold – Measure of pain sensitivity or social behavior?4

The aim was to examine the effect of the experimenter’s social status and its interaction with participant’s gender on pressure pain threshold. Both male and female students participated in the study (N = 96) and were evenly assigned into two groups which differed only in the professional status of the experimenter who was a professor (higher status) in one group and a student (lower status) in...

Social interaction in pain: reinforcing pain behaviors or building intimacy?

comparative study of pain relieving effect of dry cotton pellet and eugenol cotton pellet in the reduction of pain in emergoney pulpotomy

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Pain threshold and arthritis.

Pain threshold was measured in 106 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 50 with ankylosing spondylitis, and 50 normal controls using Keele's algometer. In rheumatoid arthritis patients with a low pain threshold had more severe pain for a greater part of the day and required more tablets for pain relief. In ankylosing spondylitis the pain threshold was higher and was not related to pain or analge...

Social laughter is correlated with an elevated pain threshold.

Although laughter forms an important part of human non-verbal communication, it has received rather less attention than it deserves in both the experimental and the observational literatures. Relaxed social (Duchenne) laughter is associated with feelings of wellbeing and heightened affect, a proximate explanation for which might be the release of endorphins. We tested this hypothesis in a serie...