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The evolutionarily novel context of clinical caregiving and facial displays of pain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Karen L. Schmidt
Karen L. Schmidt
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 [email protected] www.pitt.edu/~kschmidt
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Abstract

Evolutionary explanations of pain expression require modeling social adaptations in a context where the role of health professionals as potential caregivers, conflicts with their status as relative strangers. As signals of help elicitation or of alarm, facial pain displays and responses to displays, particularly in the upper face, are expected to conform to this evolutionarily novel clinical context.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 2002 , pp. 471 - 472
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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