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A new study indicates that pain perception is influenced by expectations and certainty. Researchers conducted a virtual reality experiment to find results.

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Researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan published a paper in Cognition that found that pain perception can be affected by factors such as beliefs about pain and its uncertainty.