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Smoking Habits and Pain Tolerance
Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal, 1974In 66,410 subjects from the Kaiser-Permanente Multiphasic Screening program the limits of pain tolerance (determined through standardized mechanical pressure on the Achilles tendon) was studied in relation to smoking habits and in respect of age, race, and sex.
C C, Seltzer +3 more
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Pain Tolerance and Narcotic Addiction
British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1965The present study was designed to examine the relation between pain tolerance, as measured by the cold‐pressor test, narcotic addiction and some aspects of personality. The subjects used were two groups each of twenty‐four female prisoners; one group comprised former addicts, the other non‐addicts.
J E, Martin, J, Inglis
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Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2011
It is often thought that tolerance must be painful; the absence of pain is taken as an indication of indifference, an indication that the agent does not really disapprove of the object of her professed tolerance. This article challenges that view by arguing that the association of tolerance and pain depends ultimately upon the contentious assumption ...
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It is often thought that tolerance must be painful; the absence of pain is taken as an indication of indifference, an indication that the agent does not really disapprove of the object of her professed tolerance. This article challenges that view by arguing that the association of tolerance and pain depends ultimately upon the contentious assumption ...
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Personality correlates of pain perception and tolerance
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982Explored personality correlates of pain perception and tolerance in a nonmedical sample and setting. In a counter-balanced design, 70 Ss were administered several personality questionnaires and a cold-pressor test for pain perception and tolerance. In Experiment 1, 39 Ss were given the Adjective Check List and Rosenberg's Self-esteem Scale, while in ...
P R, Lukin, A B, Ray
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Smoking, pain tolerance, and physiological activation
Psychopharmacology, 1983The effects of tobacco smoking and beta-blockade on psychophysiological measures, i.e., heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP), skin conductance (SC), and sensitivity to electrical pain stimulation was studied in a group of 33 male moderate smokers. Using a method of limits threshold determination technique, measures of pain threshold (PT), and tolerance
D, Waller +3 more
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Pain Tolerance and Kinesthetic After-Effect
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1962In a recent series of papers, Petrie, Collins, and Solomon (1958, 1960) and Peuie (1960) argued that individual differences in pain tolerance (and in tolerance of sensory deprivation) are part of a more general perceptual characteristic of "augmenting" or "reducing" sensory inputs.
A J, DINNERSTEIN +3 more
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Decreasing pain tolerance outside of awareness
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2011Medically unexplained symptoms (MUSs) are a humanitarian and economic burden. Among them, pain complaints without organic pathology are the most prevalent. Theoretically, activated illness-related memory may cause reporting of symptoms by changing perception and interpretation of bodily signals to the extent that they are not tolerated and become ...
Esther E, Meerman +2 more
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2012
Chocolate has a reputation as a pain reliever that spans hundreds of years. Mechanisms of chocolate analgesia could include associative learning and direct chemical activity. Associative learning is likely mediated through endogenous opioid activity.
Kristina M. Eggleston, Theresa White
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Chocolate has a reputation as a pain reliever that spans hundreds of years. Mechanisms of chocolate analgesia could include associative learning and direct chemical activity. Associative learning is likely mediated through endogenous opioid activity.
Kristina M. Eggleston, Theresa White
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Relationship of Pain Tolerance with Human Aggression
Psychological Reports, 2007In research with animals as well as samples of chronic pain patients and elderly persons, pain has been positively correlated with measures of irritability, hostility, and aggression. The present investigation examined the relationship of pain tolerance with aggression.
Kristin A, Niel +4 more
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Psychological factors affecting pain tolerance
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 1970Abstract The present study was designed to investigate some of the cognitive functions which may aid an individual in coping with physical pain. Four instructional tapes— relaxation, “anxiety”, cogitive rehearsal, and control—were tested for their ability to increase pain tolerance in a laboratory situation. Eigthy student nurses received one of four
M J, Bobey, P O, Davidson
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