The McGill Pain Questionnaire (1984) consists of a list of words arranged into classes that describe three different aspects of pain:
1. The sensory-discriminative quality (ie. throbbing, gnawing, shooting)
2. The motivational-affective (emotional) quality (ie. tiring, sickening, fearful)
3. An overall cognitive evaluative quality (ie. no pain, mild, excruciating)

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An interesting characteristic of pain is that there are not universal levels across the globe. For instance, in some parts of the world people endure rituals (that involve self mutilation and burning) with stoic indifference, whereas others would cry out in pain. Learning, experience, emotion, and culture all affect the perception of pain in striking ways.
- McGill's Three Aspects of Pain

Measuring Human Pain

Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

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