{"pk":25458,"title":"Reading Words Hurts:\nThe impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This study explores the relation between pain sensitivity and\nthe cognitive processing of words. 130 participants evaluated\nthe pain-relatedness of a total of 600 two-syllabic nouns, and\nsubsequently reported on their own pain sensitivity. The\nresults demonstrate that pain-sensitive people (based on their\nself-report) associate words more strongly with pain than less\nsensitive people. In particular, concrete nouns like syringe,\nwound, knife, and cactus, are considered to be more painrelated\nfor those who are more pain-sensitive. We discuss our\nresults in the light of three theoretical frameworks – cognitive\nbias, prototype theory, embodied account. We argue that the\nlatter is best suited to explain the results of this study in the\nsense in which it implies the principle of body specificity,\naccording to which different bodily characteristics lead to\ncorresponding differences in the way in which people\nconstruct concepts and word meanings","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Pain"},{"word":"pain-sensitivity; semantic processing;\ncognitive biases; prototype theory; embodied account; body\nspecificity."}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6387f8j0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Erica","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cosentino","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Philosophy, Ruhr University Bochum","department":""},{"first_name":"Markus","middle_name":"","last_name":"Werning","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Philosophy, Ruhr University Bochum","department":""},{"first_name":"Kevin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Reuter","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Philosophy, Ruhr University Bochum","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25458/galley/15082/download/"}]}