Perhaps most obvious example of context influencing
pain experience is reflected in differences between pain perception
and pain expression experienced in clinical and in
experimental conditions (Kim, Neubert, Rowan, Brahim,
Iadarola & Dionne, 2004). Differences in level of fear, uncertainty
of outcome, duration of painful procedure, possipossibility
of pain control, amount of stress and risk experienced
in clinical conditions or accepted during participation in
experimentally induced painful situations, are only some of
the factors that probably contribute to different clinical and
experimental pain experience. Because of these differences,
results obtained in experimental conditions are somewhat
difficult to generalize to other situations of pain experience
in real life conditions.