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Does physical pain impair abstract thinking?

Jens AgerströmDepartment of Psychology, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Helena GunnarssonDepartment of Psychology, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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Kent SteningDepartment of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
Pages 748-754 | Received 19 Jul 2016, Accepted 03 Mar 2017, Published online: 23 Mar 2017

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Helena Gunnarsson & Jens Agerström. (2023) Thinking abstractly about one’s physical pain: can abstraction reduce sensitivity to painful stimuli?. Nordic Psychology 0:0, pages 1-12.
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Jens Agerström, Kent Stening & Olof Axman. (2019) Pain here and now: physical pain impairs transcendence of psychological distance. Journal of Pain Research 12, pages 961-968.
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Helena Gunnarsson & Jens Agerström. (2018) Clinical pain, abstraction, and self-control: being in pain makes it harder to see the forest for the trees and is associated with lower self-control. Journal of Pain Research 11, pages 1105-1114.
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Danièle Anne Gubler, Christian Rominger, Denise Jakob & Stefan Johannes Troche. (2023) How does experimentally induced pain affect creative ideation and underlying attention-related psychophysiological mechanisms?. Neuropsychologia 183, pages 108514.
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Michael Cahalane, Samuel N. Kirshner & Aaron Ting. (2022) Does virtual reality lower construal levels?. Computers in Human Behavior Reports 7, pages 100205.
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Helena Gunnarsson & Jens Agerström. (2020) Pain and social cognition: does pain lead to more stereotyped judgments based on ethnicity and age?. Scandinavian Journal of Pain 20:3, pages 611-621.
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Nina Attridge, Jayne Pickering, Matthew Inglis, Edmund Keogh & Christopher Eccleston. (2019) People in pain make poorer decisions. Pain 160:7, pages 1662-1669.
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Nina Attridge, Edmund Keogh & Christopher Eccleston. (2019) An investigation of the effect of experimental pain on logical reasoning. Pain 160:5, pages 1093-1102.
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