Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5578039 | The Journal of Pain | 2016 | 31 Pages |
Abstract
This article presents a new adolescent measure of interpretation bias. We found that the tendency to interpret ambiguous situations as indicative of pain and bodily threat may be one potential cognitive mechanism explaining why adolescents who catastrophize about pain report more pain, thus indicating a potential novel intervention target.
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Authors
Lauren C. Heathcote, Merel Koopmans, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Fox, Konrad Jacobs, Nick Wilkinson, Jennifer Y.F. Lau,