At a glance
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Common and Distinct Mechanisms of Expectancy Effects Across Outcomes
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Symbolic conditioning, Conditioning, and 2 other interventions for Healthy. Completed, enrolled 10 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
A behavioral study that will examine how pain perception is affected by different types of conditioning and by context, with a few participants and multiple sessions ("N-of-few" design).
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Participants will learn associations between cues and thermal stimuli with varying temperatures (low vs. high) through symbolic conditioning (no actual heat stimuli, only pictures of thermometers)
Participants will learn associations between cues and thermal stimuli with varying temperatures (low vs. high) from experience (with actual heat stimuli).
Participants will learn associations between cues and thermal stimuli with varying temperatures (low vs. high) from verbal instructions.
Thermal stimuli will be either the better outcome or the worse outcome out of two possible outcomes.