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      Discounting future pain: Effects on self-reported pain 

      Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Repollés Pro, María (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-07)
      Empirical results are presented showing that people who acknowledge pain anticipation when expecting an injury experience higher sensitivity to pain (GREP, Robinson et al., 2001). The positive correlation between sensitivity ...
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      Time discounting (delta) and pain anticipation: Experimental evidence 

      Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Repollés Pro, María (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-11)
      This paper deals with pain anticipation experienced before medical procedures. Our experimental results show that individuals with lower discount factors are more prone to suffer pain in advance. We provide a framework to ...