The researchers manipulated the heat and recorded the women’s reactions under different conditions: while she was looking at a photo of her boyfriend, or a photo of a complete stranger and a chair. They also had the women rate the pain while they held the hand of a stranger hidden behind a curtain, and as they held their boyfriend’s hand or a squeeze ball.
“We saw lower pain ratings on average when the women were holding their partner’s hand compared with a stranger’s hand or an object,” said Sarah L. Master, the lead author of the paper, who did the study at U.C.L.A. as part of her doctoral research.
When the women looked at photographs of their boyfriends, they rated the pain lower than when they were staring at a photo of a stranger or a chair. Surprisingly, they even ranked the pain lower than they had while holding their boyfriend’s hand.
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