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Beyond unpleasantness: social exclusion affects the experience of pain, but not of equally-unpleasant disgust

ContributorsGuyon, Amélie
Master program titleMaîtrise universitaire en psychologie
Defense date2017
Abstract

Seminal studies found common activations during social and physical pain and suggested that they were underpinned by the same modality-specific processes. However, recent studies challenged this vision by arguing that those shared activations could be explained alternatively by modality-independent processes and so they could be shared with other unpleasant experiences, as disgust. To better understand those shared processes, we recruited 30 volunteers (M = 21.47 y.o., SD = ± 2.97 y.o.) and asked them to play to a virtual ball-tossing game with four confederates who excluded or included participants in the game. During this task, participants received comparably-unpleasant sensory stimulations (painful or disgusting). We recorded physiological measures and their evaluation of unpleasantness for the sensory stimulation.

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GUYON, Amélie. Beyond unpleasantness: social exclusion affects the experience of pain, but not of equally-unpleasant disgust. 2017.
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