Code
01N00411
Duration
01 January 2011 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Health psychology
- Cognitive processes
- Motivation and emotion
- Motor processes and action
- Sensory processes and perception
Keywords
health psychology
goals
pain
medically unexplained symptoms
hypervigilance
Project description
Hypervigilance for bodily sensations is often suggested as a crucial factor in medically unexplained pain. This idea, however, lacks theoretical underpinning and empirical support. In this project, hypervigilance for bodily sensations is investigated within a new theoretical framework, which proposes that hypervigilance is a functional mechanism that is activated in situations in which patients experience bodily threat.