Scott D S, Barber T X
Percept Mot Skills. 1977 Apr;44(2):569-70. doi: 10.2466/pms.1977.44.2.569.
The experiment was designed to determine whether specific cognitive strategies are effective in reducing pain. Subjects were tested either on cold pain or pressure pain. Although the cognitive strategies did not significantly alter pain tolerance or pain intensity, the following four findings emerged: (a) males and females responded in a similar manner to the painful stimuli, (b) both the experimental subjects and the controls had surprisingly high tolerance of pain, (c) subjects typically generated their own thoughts and images to control pain, and (d) subjects responded to cold pain and to pressure pain in a similar manner.
该实验旨在确定特定的认知策略是否能有效减轻疼痛。受试者分别接受冷痛或压痛测试。尽管认知策略并未显著改变疼痛耐受性或疼痛强度，但出现了以下四个结果：(a) 男性和女性对疼痛刺激的反应方式相似；(b) 实验对象和对照组对疼痛的耐受性都出奇地高；(c) 受试者通常会产生自己的想法和意象来控制疼痛；(d) 受试者对冷痛和压痛的反应方式相似。
