“…Thus, another line of research introduced an alternative approach: promoting participants' active involvement in achieving a self-regulatory goal. To do so, some studies used positive self-statements, e.g., "I can stand this" (Jokic-Begic, Ivanec, & Markanovic, 2009); some involved reinterpretation of sensory experiences, e.g., imagining thermal stimulation as a hot bath (Fardo, Allen, Jegindø, Angrilli, & Roepstorff, 2015;Hampton, Hadjistavropoulos, Gagnon, Williams, & Clark, 2015;Lapate et al, 2012;Woo, Roy, Buhle, & Wager, 2015); some used verbal suggestions, e.g., convincing subjects that a procedure would improve their health (Benedetti, Thoen, Blanchard, Vighetti, & Arduino, 2013;Hovasapian & Levine, 2016); others combined some of the aforementioned methods (Denson, Creswell, Terides, & Blundell, 2014;Kalisch et al, 2005).…”