Pain rating task
pain
HEAT, BLIND
To reduce demand characteristics, a research assistant blind to the condition replaced the experimenter to run the participant through a validated pain task (After the break, participants completed 2 habituation trials with level 50 pain on areas 2 and 4 of the participant’s arm, followed by 8 testing trials on the same spots, with the same on–off order as conditioning and level 50 of heat pain.