这支研究团队来自生物和临床心理学学院。他们用核磁共振成像仪观察人们听到与疼痛相关的词汇时的脑部反应。
In order to prevent reactions based on a plain negative affect the subjects were also confronted with words with negative connotations like “terrifying”， "horrible" or "disgusting" besides the proper pain words。
除了上述疼痛相关词汇，为避免一般负面词汇所造成的反应，研究人员还为受测试者们挑选了“骇人的”、“可怕的”、“厌恶的”等负面词汇。
However merely negative words such as "horrible" and "disgusting" did not have the same effect。
但是，其他如“可怕的”、“厌恶的”等负面词汇并没有产生相同的效果。
And because patients suffering chronic pain are often asked to describe it, this could actually make it worse, scientists claim。
科学家称，经受慢性病折磨的患者，经常要描述他们的痛感和症状，而这种方式有可能会加重他们的痛感。