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Sex differences in pain: Evolutionary links to facial pain expression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Edmund Keogh
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London SE14 6NW, United [email protected] www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/psychology/keogh.htm
Anita Holdcroft
Affiliation:
Magill Department of Anaesthesia, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Imperial College School of Medicine, London SW10 9NH, United [email protected]

Abstract

Women typically report more pain than men, as well as exhibit specific sex differences in the perception and emotional expression of pain. We present evidence that sex is a significant variable in the evolution of facial expression of pain.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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