Science isn’t perfect and research findings often stray from the truth [1]. Researchers miss the bullseye for a number of reasons, but one explanation might be that we let our intuitions give way to cognitive ...

Clinicians, like with researchers, can fall prey to potential cognitive bias (Kleinmuntz 1990). It lurks within our minds without us being aware of it, and can present itself in everyday life as a stereotype or ...

As Bill Nighy would say, “Cognitive bias is all around us”. Every time you make a decision that involves any element of human judgement, cognitive bias is introduced. While cognitive bias itself is not bad ...

So-called healthy controls are often included in pain studies as controls to compare with patients or as the main study group in human experimental pain studies. However, the definition of what is considered “healthy” varies, ...

We are very pleased to be hosting Prof Serge Marchand for PainAdelaide 2016. His team recently published an interesting paper and we thought it was a great opportunity for us, and for all those coming ...