The subjects were each given mildly painful electric shocks, matched to their individual pain thresholds.
We know that 90% of consumers look for a specific type of product for their individual pain".
As Rahila Gupta of Southall Black Sisters says, "It is as though individual pain is the only point of entry into an understanding of a systemic disorder".
Yet while Phillips began writing to solve the "conundrum of my own existence", he has insistently directed his gaze from individual pain to the nature of the society that produces it.
On the other hand, enormous, city-trampling special effects, urging us to savor a destruction so complete, and so heedless of individual pain, that it can be regarded only as a joke.
The fact that thousands of deaths in Africa are treated as a statistic, and that one or two patients inside our borders are reported in all their individual pain, should be cause for reflection".
But equally perilous rivalries seem renascent in the fundamental contest of the euro crisis between (German-led) proponents of hard work and austerity and those who plead for less individual pain.
Although the neuroanatomic basis of pain reception develops before birth, individual pain responses are learned in early childhood and are affected by social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and genetic factors, among others.
Poor as we are, generally, at narrative compassion - feeling another person's individual pain - whatever weakness we have in that area is far surpassed by the weakness we have in statistical compassion, when we have to understand what's happening, or might happen, to huge numbers of other people at a given moment".
In this conflict, online hoaxes and fake images proliferate, and, even when a picture can be verified, as in the case of Omran Daqneesh, it can be difficult from a distance to peer behind a portrait of individual pain into the environment from which it arose.
The stimulus intensity was set at doubled individual pain threshold.
