Enjoy your reading – a freshly published article from our lab in collaboration with colleagues from Lübeck (Germany) and Cincinnati (USA) available in Open Access format!
If you’ve conducted or are planning to conduct a pain experiment involving humans, there’s a good chance you’ve faced a similar dilemma, and you probably know how time-consuming it is to make the right decision. If you haven’t read our recent paper yet, here’s a summary of it: Imagine that you want to induce pain during your experiment. You can do this in two ways:
- i) everyone receives the same dose/intensity of stimulus
or
- ii) you calibrate the intensity of the stimulus so that everyone feels pain at the same intensity.
However, which approach is better? And is either one better at all? In this article, we outline the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and conduct a simulation study using data from our lab.
