Learning About Pain From Others - Social learning of pain-related fear and avoidance behavior KU Leuven
Pain-related fear and avoiding activities that might be related to pain are two crucial factors in the development and maintenance of chronic pain. Pain-related fear and avoidance can be learned, so that formerly neutral movements can cause fear and avoidance, after they have been paired repeatedly with the experience of pain. However, learning via direct experience is but one way to learn about pain. Humans, as a social species, often learn ...