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sponses to pain might be learned. In the 19th century, writers often noted that
Native Americans were remarkably stoic in the face of what Whites considered
overwhelming pain. Other researchers have also noted cultural differences in pain
threshold. While individual differences can easily be chalked up to differences in biological
makeup, cultural differences are more difficult to pass off as exclusively biological in
origin.
7. Could it be that to some degree we learn how to respond to pain messages based on factors
such as how much attention we receive for crying in response to pain when we are infants?
Many parents of young children have remarked about incidents where their child has
fallen, and then looked up at the parents as if asking “How should I react?” If the parents
start to make a big fuss over the fall, the child immediately starts to cry. If the parents smile
and stay calm, the child ignores the fall and returns to playing. If a parent constantly
overreacts to small falls, and lavishes attention on a child every time he or she cries, could
they be reinforcing a tendency to react negatively to any pain and use overblown reactions
to pain as a means of getting attention?
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