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Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 24/12/2008
... issue of Psychological Science, was led by Kurt Gray, a graduate student in psychology, along with Daniel Wegner, professor of psychology.It has long been known that individual’s own mental states can alter the experience of pain, but the findings suggest that a person’s perceptions of the mental states of others can also influence how he or she feels pain.“This study shows that even...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
Pain is enhanced if deliberately inflicted IF SOMEONE accidentally steps on your toe, it hurts. But does it hurt more if you think he did it deliberately? That, in essence, is the question Kurt Gray and Daniel Wegner of Harvard University asked in a study they have just published in Psychological Science. And their answer is that it probably does. Dr Gray and Dr Wegner did not...
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Psyche, Science, and Society (Free subscription) | 21/12/2008
... this malicious intention, torture would not hurt as much,” he says. Gray and Harvard colleague Daniel Wegner tested the hypothesis on 43 student volunteers, most of them female. Each volunteer was paired with a partner, who, unbeknownst to the volunteer, was a part of the research team. The volunteers were asked to perform several tasks chosen by the partner from a pair of options....
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Science Now (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
... this malicious intention, torture would not hurt as much," he says. Gray and Harvard colleague Daniel Wegner tested the hypothesis on 43 student volunteers, most of them female. Each volunteer was paired with a partner, who, unbeknownst to the volunteer, was a part of the research team. The volunteers were asked to perform several tasks chosen by the partner from a pair of options....
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Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
... issue of Psychological Science, was led by Kurt Gray, a graduate student in psychology, along with Daniel Wegner, professor of psychology. It has long been known that individual's own mental states can alter the experience of pain, but the findings suggest that a person's perceptions of the mental states of others can also influence how he or she feels pain. "This study shows that...
