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Acute Pain Experience and Recovery: Motivational Effects on Self- Control and Regulation and Regulatory Effects on Social Discounting
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Acute Pain Experience and Recovery: Motivational Effects on Self- Control and Regulation and Regulatory Effects on Social Discounting
Yazar:
Dominguez, Jose Ramon Caselan, author.
ISBN:
9780438041912
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1 electronic resource (94 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: B.
Advisors: Xiao-Tian Wang Committee members: Jan Berkhout; Sara Lowmaster; Frank Schieber; Amy Schweinle.
Özet:
In two studies, we investigated behavioral effects of acute pain and recovery from pain on decision making. In Study 1, we proposed that signals of pain and pain recovery affect not only physical well-being but also behavioral aspects of decision making. Pain as a signal of risk demands immediate attention and resource allocation. Therefore, we predicted that a brief experience of acute pain would increase present-orientation and discount relatively remote relationships. In addition, acute pain would decrease self-control due to an attentional shift to pain signals. In contrast, recovery from pain would increase self-control and prosocial behaviors. To inflict pain, a cold pressor task was administered. The results from 63 participants showed that self-regulation, as measured by delay discounting in making intertemporal choices between a smaller-and-sooner reward and a larger-and-later reward, remained consistent across the baseline, pain, and pain recovery conditions. Self-control measures in a grip control task indicated a linear improvement from the baseline, pain, to pain recover condition, indicating that transient pain signals may improve self-control. Social discounting, reduction in generosity as social relational distance increases, was measured by the split point of decreasing rewards between self and another person. It remained unchanged towards closest relations (e.g., kin), but reduced significantly for the relations with medium social distance (e.g., friends and distant relatives) and far social distance (e.g., strangers) during the pain and pain recovery conditions. In Study 2, we proposed that signals of acute pain highlight an immediate risk and would increase risk-seeking preferences. To inflict pain, capsaicin was applied on the participants' forearm, and measurements for the skin flare area and the allodynia area were taken. As predicted, the participants were more risk-seeking during pain conditions when making choices between a sure thing and a gamble option. The results from the capsaicin application showed that borderline personality traits had a significant negative correlation with the skin flare area. In sum, the results from the two studies demonstrate motivational effects of pain on self-control and regulatory effects of pain on prosocial behavior. Moderate and transient pain experience may serve as a physiological nudge for self-control and self-regulation.
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School code: 0203
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