Kersten Mike, Swets Julie A, Cox Cathy R, Kusumi Takashi, Nishihata Kazushi, Watanabe Tomoya
Department of Psychology, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States.
Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, United States.
Front Psychol. 2020 Oct 13;11:572881. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572881. eCollection 2020.
Previous work has found that nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, is associated with psychological, emotional, and social benefits. Recent research has demonstrated that nostalgic reflection also can improve individuals' physical health (i.e., exercise) and reduce temperature-related pain. Building on this, two experiments examined how nostalgia can reduce people's pain perceptions (i.e., reduced severity and increased tolerance). Specifically, Study 1 showed that inducing nostalgia through a writing task decreased perceived pain severity (i.e., intensity) among self-reported chronic pain sufferers. Study 2, in turn, demonstrated that Japanese individuals experienced increased pain tolerance (i.e., the maximum level of pain a person can tolerate) for a pressure algometer task following thoughts of nostalgia (vs. a control prime). This work provides evidence that nostalgic reflection may serve as a psychological resource to reduce the perceived severity of physical pain.
先前的研究发现，怀旧，即对过去的一种情感渴望，与心理、情感和社会益处相关。最近的研究表明，怀旧反思还可以改善个体的身体健康（如锻炼）并减轻与温度相关的疼痛。在此基础上，两项实验研究了怀旧如何降低人们的疼痛感知（即减轻疼痛严重程度并提高疼痛耐受性）。具体而言，研究1表明，通过写作任务诱发怀旧情绪可降低自我报告的慢性疼痛患者所感知的疼痛严重程度（即强度）。反过来，研究2表明，在怀旧情绪（与对照启动相比）的影响下，日本人在压力测痛仪任务中经历了更高的疼痛耐受性（即一个人能够耐受的最大疼痛水平）。这项研究提供了证据，表明怀旧反思可能作为一种心理资源来减轻身体疼痛的感知严重程度。
