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Pain in the social animal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Kenneth D. Craig  and
Melanie A. Badali
Kenneth D. Craig
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, [email protected]@interchange.ubc.ca www.psych.ubc.ca/~kenslab/painlab/ www.psych.ubc.ca/~kenslab/painlab/melanieb.htm
Melanie A. Badali
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, [email protected]@interchange.ubc.ca www.psych.ubc.ca/~kenslab/painlab/ www.psych.ubc.ca/~kenslab/painlab/melanieb.htm
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Abstract

Human pain experience and expression evolved to serve a range of social functions, including warning others, eliciting care, and influencing interpersonal relationships, as well as to protect from physical danger. Study of the relatively specific, involuntary, and salient facial display of pain permits examination of these roles, extending our appreciation of pain beyond the prevalent narrow focus on somatosensory mechanisms.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 2002 , pp. 456 - 457
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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