2014
DOI: 10.1002/ejp.637
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Interpretation biases in chronic pain patients: an incidental learning task

Abstract: These results show clear evidence that chronic pain patients do demonstrate an interpretation bias towards painful faces and that this bias is greater for those who catastrophize more and have higher levels of fear of pain, but experienced less pain in the preceding week. Given the recent potential shown for interventions that modify cognitive biases, this paradigm would seem to be well suited to future efforts to modify interpretation biases in pain.

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“…Dehghani et al., ) and some chronic pain samples (Sharpe et al., ). Interpretation bias reaction times and standard deviations were similar to those reported in healthy samples (Khatibi et al., ), but substantially smaller than those reported in chronic pain samples (Khatibi et al., ).…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 82%
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“…Dehghani et al., ) and some chronic pain samples (Sharpe et al., ). Interpretation bias reaction times and standard deviations were similar to those reported in healthy samples (Khatibi et al., ), but substantially smaller than those reported in chronic pain samples (Khatibi et al., ).…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 82%
“…As this relationship has not been measured before, this finding provides preliminary evidence that these biases may not be related in healthy people about to complete a painful task. However, the small effects and low variance for the interpretation bias task, compared with chronic pain samples (Khatibi et al., ), may explain the lack of association.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Stimuli were 16 happy and 16 painful facial expressions that were matched on emotion intensity. A further 16 facial expressions that were morphed from an additional 16 pairs of happy and painful facial expressions were included, which have previously been identified as being the most ambiguous morph of each photograph pair (Khatibi et al, 2015).…”
Section: Interpretation Bias Taskmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Interpretation bias, or the tendency to interpret pain related information as threatening, was measured using the incidental learning task as described by Khatibi, Sharpe, Jafari, Gholami, and Dehghani (2015). Stimuli were 16 happy and 16 painful facial expressions that were matched on emotion intensity.…”
Section: Interpretation Bias Taskmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Chronic pain patients showed greater bias towards interpretation ambiguous situations as painful, and a higher fear of pain and catastrophizing is associated with erroneous interpretation of pain [14].…”
Section: Cognitive Factorsmentioning
confidence: 99%