Others' Pain Appraisals Modulate the Anticipation and Experience of Subsequent Pain

Peng, Weiwei; Peng, Huini; Lu, Juanzhi; Fan, Bi; Cui, Fang

doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.04.055

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“…For instance, past pain experience may greatly influence the way future painful events will be experienced (Noel et al, 2012). Similarly, there are few data collected concerning childbirth narratives coming from women's close environments: recent research has underlined how hearing other's pain appraisals can modulate the anticipation and the experience of one's own pain (Peng et al, 2019). Including these elements in the hypnosis protocols can help women focus on their actual and individual emotional and physical experience of pregnancy, while protecting them from external influences such as negative childbirth narratives or even their own past experiences that can be traumatic (Yildiz et al, 2017).…”

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Hypnosis-based interventions during pregnancy and childbirth and their impact on women's childbirth experience: A systematic review

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Wendland

2020

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Hypnosis-based interventions during pregnancy and childbirth and their impact on women's childbirth experience: A systematic review

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Wendland

2020

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“…Contextual information about the imminence of a painful event (e.g., visual or verbal cues) may greatly influence one's own sensations of pain [35][36][37]. Likewise, empathy for pain in others is flexible and can be modulated by social context (i.e., the immediate social setting where the ongoing event happens) [38].…”

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Pain and social decision-making: New insights from the social framing effect

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Cui

2019

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This paper focuses on the social function of painful experience as revealed by recent studies on social decision-making. Observing others suffering from physical pain evokes empathic reactions that can lead to prosocial behavior (e.g., helping others at a cost to oneself), which might be regarded as the social value of pain derived from evolution. Feelings of guilt may also be elicited when one takes responsibility for another’s pain. These social emotions play a significant role in various cognitive processes and may affect behavioral preferences. In addition, the influence of others’ pain on decision-making is highly sensitive to social context. Combining neuroimaging techniques with a novel decision paradigm, we found that when asking participants to trade-off personal benefits against providing help to other people, verbally describing the causal relationship between their decision and other people’s pain (i.e., framing) significantly changed participants’ preferences. This social framing effect was associated with neural activation in the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), which is a brain area that is important in social cognition and in social emotions. Further, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on this region successfully modulated the magnitude of the social framing effect. These findings add to the knowledge about the role of perception of others’ pain in our social life.

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“… 15 , 51 Finally, only one study so far has investigated whether verbal modelling (ie, observing other people's pain ratings) can trigger placebo and nocebo effects. Although there is evidence that this type of (social) information can affect pain experience directly, 42 , 43 , 52 these studies did not involve a placebo or nocebo effect induction (ie, with a sham intervention) but rather investigated the direct impact on pain. Studying how written pain information influences pain in the context of placebo effects is relevant, given the amount of information on other people's experiences with pain treatment that is available, for instance, on social media and the internet.…”

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Learning pain from others: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on placebo hypoalgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia induced by observational learning

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Wasylewski

Bajcar

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Pain

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Observing someone experience pain relief or exacerbation after an intervention may induce placebo hypoalgesia or nocebo hyperalgesia. Understanding the factors that contribute to these effects could help in the development of strategies for optimizing treatment of chronic pain conditions. We systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed the literature on placebo hypoalgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia induced by observational learning (OL). A systematic literature search was conducted in the databases PubMed, PsycINFO, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, PsycARTICLES, Scopus, and Academic Search Ultimate. Twenty-one studies were included in the systematic review, 17 of which were suitable for meta-analysis (18 experiments; n = 764 healthy individuals). The primary end point was the standardized mean difference (SMD) for pain following placebo cues associated during OL with low vs high pain. Observational learning had a small-to-medium effect on pain ratings (SMD 0.44; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.21-0.68; P < 0.01) and a large effect on pain expectancy (SMD 1.11; 95% CI 0.49-2.04; P < 0.01). The type of observation (in-person vs videotaped) modulated the magnitude of placebo hypoalgesia/nocebo hyperalgesia (P < 0.01), whereas placebo type did not (P = 0.23). Finally, OL was more effective when observers' empathic concern (but no other empathy-related factors) was higher (r = 0.14; 95% CI 0.01-0.27; P = 0.03). Overall, the meta-analysis demonstrates that OL can shape placebo hypoalgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia. More research is needed to identify predictors of these effects and to study them in clinical populations. In the future, OL could be an important tool to help maximize placebo hypoalgesia in clinical settings.

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Others' Pain Appraisals Modulate the Anticipation and Experience of Subsequent Pain

Cited by 8 publications

References 58 publications

Hypnosis-based interventions during pregnancy and childbirth and their impact on women's childbirth experience: A systematic review

Hypnosis-based interventions during pregnancy and childbirth and their impact on women's childbirth experience: A systematic review

Pain and social decision-making: New insights from the social framing effect

Learning pain from others: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on placebo hypoalgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia induced by observational learning

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