Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine2012
Will it hurt less if I believe I can control it? Influence of actual and perceived control on perceived pain intensity in healthy male individuals: a randomized controlled study.
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- Computer-delivered social norm message increases pain tolerance.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2014Trial
- Uncontrollability of experimental pain decreases pain intensity and relief pleasantness ratings in a between-group design.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Controllability changes pain perception by increasing the precision of expectations.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Instability in the environment and children's in-school self-regulatory behaviors.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The blink reflex and its modulation - Part 1: Physiological mechanisms.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Review
- Perceived control, loneliness, early-life stress, and parents' perceptions of stress.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Hypnotic predictors of agency: Responsiveness to specific suggestions in hypnosis is associated with involuntariness in fibromyalgia.Consciousness and cognition · 2021Article
- Psychological Treatment for Chronic Pain: Improving Access and Integration.Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society · 2021Article
- Rethinking Concepts and Categories for Understanding the Neurodevelopmental Effects of Childhood Adversity.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Article
- Early life stress and development: potential mechanisms for adverse outcomes.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2020Review
- How developmental neuroscience can help address the problem of child poverty.Development and psychopathology · 2020Article
- Neighborhood, Socioeconomic, and Racial Influence on Chronic Pain.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2018Review
- Comparing intensities and modalities within the sensory attenuation paradigm: Preliminary evidence.Journal of advanced research · 2017Article
- Different Brain Circuitries Mediating Controllable and Uncontrollable Pain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016Article
- Effects of inescapable versus escapable social stress in Syrian hamsters: the importance of stressor duration versus escapability.Physiology & behavior · 2014Article
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Abstract
We explored the effects of uncontrollability and subjective helplessness (SHL) on perceived pain intensity (PPI) in 64 healthy men randomly assigned to groups receiving controllable (C) or uncontrollable (UC) painful electric skin stimuli. SHL (d = 1.43), perceived unpleasantness (d = 1.03), and PPI (d = 0.58) were more pronounced in the UC group than in the C group. Multiple regression and bootstrap analyses for testing mediation showed a direct relationship between stressor uncontrollability and PPI (r = 0.28; P < .05), which disappeared when adjusted for the SHL increase (β = 0.49, P < .001). SHL changes were associated with objective uncontrollability (r = 0.59, P < .001). PPI and unpleasantness were positively correlated (r = 0.37, P < .01). The study suggests that the effect of objective controllability on pain intensity ratings is mediated mainly by ratings of SHL.
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