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Is clinical, musculoskeletal pain associated with poorer logical reasoning?
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Psychology.
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6134-0058
2021 (English)In: Pain Reports, E-ISSN 2471-2531, Vol. 6, no 1, article id e929Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Introduction: It has been hypothesized that pain disrupts system 2 processes (eg, working memory) presumed to underlie logicalreasoning. A recent study examining the impact of experimentally induced pain on logical reasoning found no evidence of an effect.Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine whether clinical pain, which is qualitatively different from experimental pain, wouldlower the ability to reason logically.Methods: Ninety-six participants completed a questionnaire containing 3 different logical reasoning tasks (the cognitive reflectiontest, the belief bias syllogisms task, and the conditional inference task), questions about pain variables (present pain intensity, painintensity during the last 24 hours, the influence of pain on daily activities, pain duration, and pain persistence), questions about otherpain-related states (anxiety, depression, and fatigue), and pain-relieving medication. Correlations between the logical reasoningtasks and the pain variables were calculated.Results: For 2 of the 3 logical reasoning tasks (the cognitive reflection test and the belief bias syllogisms task), clinical pain wasunrelated to logical reasoning. Performance on context-free logical reasoning showed a significant negative correlation with presentpain intensity, but not with the other pain variables.Conclusion: This finding that logical reasoning ability is largely unrelated to clinical pain is highly consistent with previous researchon experimentally induced pain. Pain should probably not constitute a significant barrier to logical reasoning in everyday life.

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Wolters Kluwer, 2021. Vol. 6, no 1, article id e929
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-103164DOI: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000929ISI: 000711978800002PubMedID: 33997585Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85118970954Local ID: 2021OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-103164DiVA, id: diva2:1553923
Available from: 2021-05-11 Created: 2021-05-11 Last updated: 2023-08-25Bibliographically approved

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