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On separating pain from the willingness to report it

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

Wolfgang Ellermeier
Affiliation:
Institut für Psychologie der Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany wolfgang.ellermeier@psychologie.uni-regensburg.de http://www.psychologie.uni-regensburg.de/wolfgang/index.html
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Abstract

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Signal-detection methodology may be used to disentangle sensory from judgmental effects when analyzing sex differences in pain. An illustrative example is given by reanalyzing a published category-scaling experiment in terms of detection-theory indices. As a result, the apparent sex difference is recast in terms of a judgmental bias. [berkley]

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© 1997 Cambridge University Press