Current Programs of Research

My research focuses primarily on the psychological determinants of pain experience and pain expression. Separate lines of research address questions of interest from basic, clinical and applied perspectives. At the basic process level, my research is currently focusing on the nature of behavioural systems involved in the communication of pain. At the clinical level, I have recently launched two longitudinal studies examining psychological predictors of problematic medical outcomes. Recent developments in each program of research are described below.

• 1. Pain Catastrophizing: Basic Processes


• 2. Pain Behaviour: Clinical Research


• 3. Pain Catastrophizing and Other Risk Factors for Problematic Medical Outcomes: Clinical Research


• 4. Perceived Injustice: Scale Development


• 5. Activity-Related Temporal Summation of Pain: Basic Research


• 6. Risk-Factor Targeted Interventions: Applied Research