Pain and Placebo Webinar - (Un)Learning Pain: Learning Mechanisms of Placebo Effects in Pain

IASP defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage" to better articulate the biopsychosocial dimensions of this phenomenon. While our understanding of pain has greatly evolved over the past decades, there are still fundamental questions that need to be addressed, including its psychological components.

This webinar explored the psychology factors that modulate pain perception and pain memory, the psychology of placebo and the learning mechanisms of placebo effects, and the psychology of education - with a special interest in increasing the effectiveness of teaching, upbringing, and memory training.