Ashton-James Claire E, Richardson Daniel C, Williams Amanda C de C, Bianchi-Berthouze Nadia, Dekker Peter H
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Oral Pathology, VU University Medical Center/Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK Research Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK UCL Interaction Center, University College London, London, UK.
Pain. 2014 Dec;155(12):2656-2661. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2014.09.031. Epub 2014 Oct 13.
This study investigated the social judgments that are made about people who appear to be in pain. Fifty-six participants viewed 2 video clips of human figures exercising. The videos were created by a motion tracking system, and showed dots that had been placed at various points on the body, so that body motion was the only visible cue. One of the figures displayed pain behaviors (eg, rubbing, holding, hesitating), while the other did not. Without any other information about the person in each video, participants evaluated each person on a variety of attributes associated with interpersonal warmth, competence, mood, and physical fitness. As well as judging them to be in more pain, participants evaluated the person who displayed pain behavior as less warm and less competent than the person who did not display pain behavior. In addition, the person who displayed pain behavior was perceived to be in a more negative mood and to have poorer physical fitness than the person who did not, and these perceptions contributed to the impact of pain behaviors on evaluations of warmth and competence, respectively. The implications of these negative social evaluations for social relationships, well-being, and pain assessment in persons in chronic pain are discussed.
本研究调查了人们对看似处于疼痛中的人的社会判断。56名参与者观看了两段人物锻炼的视频片段。这些视频由动作追踪系统制作，展示了放置在身体不同部位的点，因此身体动作是唯一可见的线索。其中一个人物表现出疼痛行为（如揉搓、扶住、犹豫），而另一个则没有。在没有关于每个视频中人物的任何其他信息的情况下，参与者根据与人际温暖、能力、情绪和身体健康相关的各种属性对每个人进行了评估。除了判断他们更疼痛之外，参与者还认为表现出疼痛行为的人比没有表现出疼痛行为的人更不温暖、能力更差。此外，表现出疼痛行为的人被认为情绪更消极、身体健康状况比没有表现出疼痛行为的人更差，而这些认知分别导致了疼痛行为对温暖和能力评估的影响。本文讨论了这些负面社会评价对慢性疼痛患者的社会关系、幸福感和疼痛评估的影响。
