EXPERIMENTAL PAIN THRESHOLDS INFLUENCED BY SEX OF EXPERIMENTER.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Gijsbers, K.; Nicholson, F.
- Source
- Perceptual & Motor Skills. Dec2005, Vol. 101 Issue 3, p803-807. 5p.
- Subject
- *PAIN
*YOUNG adults
*STUDENTS
*SEXUAL psychology
*GENDER
*ADULTS
*WOMEN
*EMOTIONS
*SENSES
- Language
- ISSN
- 0031-5125
Thresholds for pressure pain were tested in 64 adult human subjects (age: M=22.0 yr., SD=7.5). The subjects were young adults drawn from a student population. They were divided into two groups of men and two groups of women, with 16 participants in each group. A female experimenter tested one group of men and a male experimenter tested the other group. The women were tested in a similar way by an experimenter of the same sex for one group and the opposite sex for the other group. The two experimenters were dressed in a manner that emphasised their gender roles. The men tested by a female experimenter showed a higher average pain threshold than the men tested by a male experimenter, but there was no difference in the average pain thresholds of the two groups of women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]