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SUBMITTER: Kurniawan IT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3192315 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kurniawan I T IT Seymour B B Vlaev I I Trommershäuser J J Dolan R J RJ Chater N N
Psychological science 20100430 6
Motivational theories of pain highlight its role in people's choices of actions that avoid bodily damage. By contrast, little is known regarding how pain influences action implementation. To explore this less-understood area, we conducted a study in which participants had to rapidly point to a target area to win money while avoiding an overlapping penalty area that would cause pain in their contralateral hand. We found that pain intensity and target-penalty proximity repelled participants' movem ...[more]