Chronic pain affects a large part of the population causing functional disability, being often
associated with coexisting psychological disorders, such as depression and anxiety …

Although the influence of social support in health is a widely acknowledged factor, there is a
significant gap in the understanding of its role on cognition. The purpose of this systematic …

This study validates automated emotion and action unit (AU) coding applying FaceReader 7
to a dataset of standardized facial expressions of six basic emotions (Standardized and …

Objective: This review aimed to explore the processes that underlie the main and the
buffering effect of social support on decreased pain experience. Materials and Methods: The …

Social support is demonstrated to have mixed effects on both pain and related physiological
arousal. In this study, a meta-analysis was conducted to characterise these effects. A total of …

Objectives: Certain forms of social support have been shown to improve pain-coping
behaviors and pain outcomes in older adults with chronic pain, but little is known about the …

Background Social influences are important modulators of pain. Experimental studies
demonstrated analgesic effects of explicit social support. As digital health care gains …

Background Fine‐grained observational approaches to pain assessment (eg the Facial
Action Coding System; FACS) are used to evaluate pain in individuals with and without …

Introduction: Chronic pain in older people is a global health problem not only in terms of a
negative subjective feeling, but also as a social and economic factor. Deterioration of …

Humans have evolved to seek the proximity of attachment figures during times of threat in
order to obtain a sense of safety. In this context, we examined whether or not the voice of an …