Can anxiety help us tolerate pain

摘要: It was hypothesized that anxiety which is relevant to the source of pain exacerbates pain, whereas irrelevant reduces experience pain. Female subjects were given either high or low provoking information about a cold pressor task (relevant anxiety) potential shock (irrelevant anxiety). Subjects then exposed pressor. The results demonstrated who highly anxious reported experiencing most least and significantly less than These findings clearly demonstrate relationship between not always positive unidirectional.