Publication: Reading words hurts: the impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words
Reading words hurts: the impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words
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Reuter, K., Werning, M., Kuchinke, L., & Cosentino, E. (2017). Reading words hurts: the impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words. Language and Cognition, 9(3), 553–567. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2016.29
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This study explores the relation between pain sensitivity and the cognitive processing of words. 130 participants evaluated the pain-relatedness of a total of 600 two-syllabic nouns, and subsequently reported on their own pain sensitivity. The results demonstrate that pain-sensitive people associate words more strongly with pain than less sensitive people. In particular, concrete nouns like ‘syringe’, ‘wound’, ‘knife’, and ‘cactus’ are considered to be more pain-related for those who are more pain-sensitive. These findings dovetail wi
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- Reuter, Kevin
- Werning, Markus
- Kuchinke, Lars
- Cosentino, Erica
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Reuter, K., Werning, M., Kuchinke, L., & Cosentino, E. (2017). Reading words hurts: the impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words. Language and Cognition, 9(3), 553–567. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2016.29