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Last updated: Tue, Oct 29, 2024
A wide range of pain-related behaviors have been the subject of analysis using psychological theories and techniques. On the basis of these analyses, a sort of consensus view of pain psychology has developed among psychologists who follow behaviorist principles. I think of the sort-of-consensus as "the standard behavioral model of pain psychology."
This section examines a range of pain-related behaviors that have attracted the attention of psychological practitioners, psychological researchers, and psychological dilettantes. I present the behaviors of interest, psychological interpretations of them, and my own assessment of the factual and logical bases that these interpretations rest upon.
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Does It Hurt, Really? (Last updated: Tue, Oct 29, 2024)
Pain and Emotion (This page is incomplete.)
Attention and Distraction (Last updated: Wed, Jul 31, 2024)
Control (Last updated: Wed, Jul 31, 2024)
Culture and Pain (Last updated: Wed, Jul 31, 2024)
Distress and Pain (Last updated: Mon, Nov 4, 2024)
Secondary Gain (Last updated: Wed, Jul 31, 2024)
Anger and Pain (Last updated: Mon, Jul 3, 2017)
Expectation (Last updated: Wed, Jul 31, 2024)
Cognition (Last updated: Mon, Feb 24, 2025)
Childhood Abuse (Last updated: Mon, Jul 3, 2017)
Smoking (Last updated: Wed, Jul 31, 2024)
Substance Dependence (Last updated: Wed, Jul 31, 2024)
Psychiatric Co-morbidities of Pain (Last updated: Thu, Aug 1, 2024)
Placebo Analgesia (Last updated: Thu, Aug 1, 2024)
Hypnotic Analgesia (Last updated: Thu, Aug 1, 2024)
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Impediments to Psychological Analysis of Pain (Last updated: Thu, Aug 1, 2024)