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Volume 149, Issue 1 , Pages 9-11 , April 2010

Social interaction in pain: Reinforcing pain behaviors or building intimacy?

  • Annmarie Cano

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, 5057 Woodward Avenue-7th Floor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 313 577 1492; fax: +1 313 577 7636.
    • ,
  • Amanda C. de C. Williams

      Affiliations

    • Research Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Received 20 February 2009 ,Revised 30 July 2009 ,Accepted 14 October 2009.

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PII: S0304-3959(09)00607-1

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.10.010

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