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Associative learning and pain? Why stop there?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

Marcus Munafo'
Marcus Munafo'
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United [email protected]
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Abstract

It is argued by berkley that there are theoretical reasons why sex differences in pain may result from specific learning processes. I argue that Berkley has not gone far enough in pursuing this suggestion, and that the evidence that learning is a major determinant of pain behaviour is substantial. Moreover, sex differences in pain may represent only a special case of individual differences in pain resulting from learning processes.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 459 - 460
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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