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Project

When and how does directing attention away from pain affects the experience of pain? A meta-analysis and experimental approach
Code
3G017807
Duration
01 January 2007 → 30 December 2012
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Health psychology
Keywords
attention clinical health psychology pain
 
Project description

Directing attention away from pain has intuitive appeal but there is equivocation as to its merits. In this project the question when attentional distraction from pain works or fails is addressed using meta-analytic techniques and using a series of experimental studies.