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Department Psychology Seminars: Dr Deborah Talmi, Cambridge University
Location: .61 Multi Purpose Room, First Floor, New Psychology Building
Title: How would I feel tomorrow? Towards a mechanistic understanding of subjective pain experiences.
Abstract: In this talk I suggest that tests of pain perception help validate theories of emotion. I will describe empirical support for predictive processing accounts of pain perception and how we used both group averages and individual difference approaches to examine this account. I will argue that our approach offers reliable, valid, objective quantification of the psychological drivers of pain at the level of the individual which may be useful in clinical pain settings.