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To express or suppress may be function of others' distress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Geert Crombez  and
Chris Eccleston
Geert Crombez
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgiumgeert.crombez@rug.ac.be
Chris Eccleston
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdomc.eccleston@bath.ac.uk
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Abstract

We argue that pain behaviour cannot be wholly accounted for within the operant model of Fordyce (1976). Many pain behaviours, including facial expression, are not socially reinforced but are evolutionarily predetermined. We urge researchers to take into consideration other learning accounts. Building on the idea that pain sufferers learn to suppress the expression of pain, we begin the development of a framework for a relational understanding of pain complaint.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 2002 , pp. 457 - 458
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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