Laboratory Personnel Gender and Cold Pressor Apparatus Affect Subjective Pain Reports

BACKGROUND: There is no standardized method for cold pressor pain tasks across experiments. Temperature, apparatus and aspects of experimenters vary widely among studies. It is well known that experimental pain tolerance is influenced by setting as well as the sex of the experimenter. It is not know...

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Main Authors: Jacob M Vigil, Lauren N Rowell, Joe Alcock, Randy Maestes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Pain Research and Management
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/213950