Pain Patients and Who they Live with: A Correlational Study of Coresidence Patterns and Pain Interference

Vigil, Jacob M.; Pendleton, Patricia; Coulombe, Patrick; Vowles, Kevin E.; Alcock, Joe; Smith, Bruce W.

doi:10.1155/2014/651383

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“…The mutual expression of pain and empathy enables in-group members to use this information in making effective decisions. In line with this, our lab has found that momentary pain reporting is influenced by the quantity and quality of the individual's peer relationships (Vigil et al 2013), relationships with pair-bonding partners (Vigil et al 2014c), and other types of co-residents (Vigil et al 2014a). These findings suggest that pain has been naturally selected to be expressed systematically within a broader social networking system.…”

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Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence

Richerson¹,

Baldini²,

Bell³

et al. 2014

Behav Brain Sci

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Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including cultural group selection and extensions of more general processes such as reciprocity, kin selection, and multi-level selection acting on genes. Evolutionary processes are consilient; they affect several different empirical domains, such as patterns of behavior and the proximal drivers of that behavior. In this target article, we sketch the evidence from five domains that bear on the explanatory adequacy of cultural group selection and competing hypotheses to explain human cooperation. Does cultural transmission constitute an inheritance system that can evolve in a Darwinian fashion? Are the norms that underpin institutions among the cultural traits so transmitted? Do we observe sufficient variation at the level of groups of considerable size for group selection to be a plausible process? Do human groups compete, and do success and failure in competition depend upon cultural variation? Do we observe adaptations for cooperation in humans that most plausibly arose by cultural group selection? If the answer to one of these questions is "no," then we must look to other hypotheses. We present evidence, including quantitative evidence, that the answer to all of the questions is "yes" and argue that we must take the cultural group selection hypothesis seriously. If culturally transmitted systems of rules (institutions) that limit individual deviance organize cooperation in human societies, then it is not clear that any extant alternative to cultural group selection can be a complete explanation.Keywords: competition; culture; evolution; group selection; heritable variation; institutions; norms BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES (2016) KARL FROST is a Ph.D. candidate in Ecology at the University of California, Davis. He researches the cultural evolution of prosociality via religion and ritual practices, using behavioral experiments, gene-culture coevolution models, and field research in Canada looking at environmental activism in the face of the tar sands oil industry and an antagonistic government. He also directs the Body Research Physical Theater and is interested in cross-cultural exchange of theater practice as theater anthropology and arts-science fusion.

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Section: Jacob M Vigil and Eric Krugersupporting

confidence: 54%

Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence

Richerson¹,

Baldini²,

Bell³

et al. 2014

Behav Brain Sci

465

499

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“…A previous study showed that older women who are suffering from economic pressures and depressive mood were more likely to have a higher pain interference rating [ 19 ]. Similarly, a study showed that people, particularly women in their fifties and men in their thirties, showed higher pain interference when living with a family member [ 46 ]. These observations are broadly consistent with the “social signaling” perspective of human pain behaviors that are influenced by the social environment in which pain is expressed [ 47 ].…”

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Body Pain Intensity and Interference in Adults (45–53 Years Old): A Cross-Sectional Survey in Chongqing, China

Liu

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Culture and national care models matter both in reporting and treatment of pain status. However, most findings on body pain intensity and interference in adults are from Western studies, with little reliable evidence from China. This study aimed to assess body pain intensity and interference and its associations with demographic, socioeconomic characteristics, and health behaviors in adults. A cross-sectional survey was performed to collect data from 1224 adults, who were recruited via multistage stratified random sampling. The SF-36 quality-of-life instrument was used to investigate body pain intensity and interference. Ordinal logistic regression analysis was used in this study. Our results showed that 64.1% of the participants (males: 687; females: 537) reported body pain, and 45.7% of the participants reported body pain interference. Middle-aged respondents who were female, were unmarried/divorced or separated/widowed, had a negative relationship with their family, had poor sleep quality, and were not satisfied with their current living conditions had a higher body pain intensity rating (ordered logistic regression/six-level pain intensity criterion; odds ratios, p < 0.05). Respondents who were unmarried/divorced or separated/widowed, with a low education level, were unemployed, had lower incomes, had a negative relationship with their family, and were not satisfied with their current living conditions had a higher body pain interference rating (ordered logistic regression/five-level pain interference criterion; odds ratios, p < 0.05). In conclusion, an estimated 64.1% of middle-aged adults reported body pain, and 45.7% of middle-aged adults reported body pain interference. These results provide a clue for possible interventions for improving body pain intensity and interference in adults, especially among middle-aged people. These factors should be taken into consideration in the prevention of pain, pain management and treatment planning in order to help relieve the stress of pain among adults.

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Multi-level selection, social signaling, and the evolution of human suffering gestures: The example of pain behaviors

Vigil

Kruger

2016

Behav Brain Sci

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Pain suffering has been naturally selected to be experienced and expressed within a wider social system. The communication of pain improves group coordination and decision-making about engaging in resource dependent and potentially risky endeavors. Recent findings warrant the development of a cohesive framework for understanding the reciprocal nature of pain expression and individual and group-level outcomes that can generate novel predictions on the heuristical expression of human suffering in naturalistic and clinical settings.

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Pain Patients and Who they Live with: A Correlational Study of Coresidence Patterns and Pain Interference

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence

Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence

Body Pain Intensity and Interference in Adults (45–53 Years Old): A Cross-Sectional Survey in Chongqing, China

Multi-level selection, social signaling, and the evolution of human suffering gestures: The example of pain behaviors

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