Background: Previous research has indicated that the sex, status, and nonverbal behaviors
of experimenters or clinicians can contribute to reported pain, and placebo and nocebo …

Pain is a major source of global suffering, with women bearing the greatest burden.
Alongside biology, psychological and social factors, including gender, help explain these …

Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

There are sex and gender differences in pain, which requires a biopsychosocial approach to
fully understand and manage it [16, 17]. Progress has been made in isolating the biological …

BACKGROUND: There is no standardized method for cold pressor pain tasks across
experiments. Temperature, apparatus and aspects of experimenters vary widely among …

Pain serves as a signal to elicit care from others. In turn, displaying pain might be attractive
because of the benefits it might bring. Additionally, displaying pain is easy, because helpers …

This is the first study to examine how both structural and functional components of
individuals' social networks may moderate the association between biological sex and …

Ethnic minority patients receive lower priority triage assignments in Veteran's Affairs (VA)
emergency departments (EDs) compared to White patients, but it is currently unknown …

In this review article, we describe a social-signaling perspective of human pain and pain
empathizing behaviors which is based on the premise that pain percepts evolved to serve …

Background and aims As indicated by experimental studies, reports of pain intensity may
depend on the examiner's gender. Until now, it is unclear whether this is relevant in clinical …