In the European Journal of Pain, researchers studied the interplay between enduring and situation aging stereotype (AS) effects in older adults’ self-reports. The prospective study initially measured cultural AS endorsement, clinical pain severity and interference. Three months later, the effects of AS activation on reported clinical pain and experimentally reduced pain threshold and tolerance were measured. The results supported that the activation of negative AS would lead to, “higher cold presort task (CPT) pain threshold.” The study “stresses the influence of cultural AS in older adults’ pain experiences.”
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