ReviewFrontiers in psychology2016
An Integrative Review of the Influence of Expectancies on Pain.
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.
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52 citing papers in PubMed, 127 citations in OpenAlex.
- Supported biopsychosocial self-management for back-related leg pain: a randomized feasibility study integrating a whole person perspective.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2025Trial
- Is it personality or genes? - A secondary analysis on a randomized controlled trial investigating responsiveness to placebo analgesia.Scandinavian journal of pain · 2025Trial
- Increasing the Effectiveness of a Physical Activity Smartphone Intervention With Positive Suggestions: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- Expectancies as predictors of symptom improvement after antimicrobial therapy for persistent symptoms attributed to Lyme disease.Clinical rheumatology · 2021Trial
- Pain sensitivity and autonomic nervous system parameters as predictors of dry eye symptoms after LASIK.The ocular surface · 2021Trial
- Neural and behavioral changes driven by observationally-induced hypoalgesia.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- General versus pain-specific cognitions: Pain catastrophizing but not optimism influences conditioned pain modulation.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2019Trial
- The effects of a gamified approach avoidance training and verbal suggestions on food outcomes.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Antipruritic Placebo Effects by Conditioning H1-antihistamine.Psychosomatic medicineTrial
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- The trigeminal function questionnaire (TriFunQ): a tool for clinical and research use.Chemical senses · 2026Article
- Reframing Chronicity in Research and Care: A Patient-Informed Framework of Pain Adaptation.Journal of pain research · 2026Article
- Cognitive-Affective Predictors of Exertion-Related Fatigue in Primary Biliary Cholangitis: An Experimental Substudy of the SOMA.LIV Project.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
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- Methodological Approaches to Pain Memory Assessment in Chronic Pain: A Scoping Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- An update on non-pharmacological interventions for pain relief.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Review
- How the magnitude and precision of pain predictions shape pain experiences.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2025Article
- How does pretreatment expectancy influence pain outcomes with electroacupuncture and battlefield acupuncture in cancer survivors?: Pretreatment expectancy and pain reduction by acupuncture.Integrative medicine research · 2024Article
- Initial validation of the expectancies for Benzodiazepine Analgesia Scale.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- The effect of dysmenorrhea severity and interference on reactions to experimentally-induced pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Expectancies can shape pain experiences. Attention for the influence of expectancies on pain has increased particularly due to research on placebo effects, of which expectancy is believed to be the core mechanism. In the current review, we provide a brief overview of the literature on the influence of expectancies on pain. We first discuss the central role of expectancy in the major psychological learning theories. Based on these theories, different kinds of expectancies can be distinguished. Pain experiences are influenced particularly by response expectancies directly pertaining to the pain experience itself, but can also be affected by self-efficacy expectancies regarding one's ability to cope with pain, and possibly by stimulus expectancies regarding external events. These different kinds of expectancies might interact with each other, and related emotions and cognitions, as reflected by various multifaceted constructs in which expectancies are incorporated. Optimism and pain catastrophizing, in particular, but also hope, trust, worry, and neuroticism have been found to be associated with pain outcomes. We conclude with recommendations for further advancing research on the influence of expectancies on pain and for harnessing expectancy effects in clinical practice.
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