Does Distraction Reduce Pain-Produced Distress Among College Students?

College students in four experiments placed their hands in ice water (the cold-pressor task) and reported their distress. They simultaneously engaged in different reaction-time (RT) tasks that varied in the amount of attention required for successful performance. In each experiment, which differed i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Health psychology 1992, Vol.11 (4), p.210-217
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description College students in four experiments placed their hands in ice water (the cold-pressor task) and reported their distress. They simultaneously engaged in different reaction-time (RT) tasks that varied in the amount of attention required for successful performance. In each experiment, which differed in numerous procedural details, RT, error-rate, and self-report measures all demonstrated that the distraction tasks differed in the degree of attention required. Greater distraction, however, failed to reduce physiological, self-report, or behavioral responses to the cold-pressor task. These data call into question the hypothesis that attention mediates the process whereby distraction tasks reduce pain-produced distress. Key words: distraction, attention, laboratory pain
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Attention
Cold Effects
Distraction
Distress
Emotions
Female
Heart Rate - physiology
Human
Humans
Male
Pain
Pain - prevention & control
Pain - psychology
Reaction Time
Stress, Psychological
Task Performance and Analysis
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