Trustees of Dartmouth College
This study examines the effects of placebo suggestions tailored to match or mismatch individual participants' motivational styles-an issue of person-situation 'fit' with important effects in public health settings, but which has been ignored in past research.
Inclusion Criteria: * Healthy participants * Dominant promotion focus or dominant prevention focus (based on our screening) Exclusion Criteria: * Currently or recently suffered from chronic pain (based on screening) * Cannot tolerate heat pain applied to the forearm, based on a calibration task at the beginning of the experiment
Over-the-counter hand cream will be applied to participants' skin, but they will be told that they are given a highly efficient topical analgesic cream. The suggestion will be based on a "promotion" approach (promoting good feelings).
Over-the-counter hand cream will be applied to participants' skin, but they will be told that they are given a highly efficient topical analgesic cream. The suggestion will be based on a "prevention" approach (preventing pain).
In a control condition, with the same cream as in the placebo interventions, participants will be instructed that the cream is a control cream with no effects.
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