Can thinking of a loved one reduce your pain?

[HuckleB]

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/can-thinking-loved-one-reduce-your-pain-27214.html

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"The very thought of you ? the mere idea of you"
-- from the song "The Very Thought of You" by Ray Noble

Can the mere thought of your loved one reduce your pain?

Yes, according to a new study by UCLA psychologists that underscores the importance of social relationships and staying socially connected.

The study, which asked whether simply looking at a photograph of your significant other can reduce pain, involved 25 women, mostly UCLA students, who had boyfriends with whom they had been in a good relationship for more than six months.

The women received moderately painful heat stimuli to their forearms while they went through a number of different conditions. In one set of conditions, they viewed photographs of their boyfriend, a stranger and a chair.

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Very nice!

[Turbineguy]

1. The chair

but then again, I'm on my feet all day.

[HuckleB]

2. Awesome!

:hi:

[Turbineguy]

4. Actually,

I prefer to think of my loved ones. I was just trying to be funny.

[HuckleB]

5. Well, that's too bad.

[mopinko]

3. it's the "boyfriend with whom they had good relationship" that is

the hard part!