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Toward a Formalization of Human Intuitive Theories of Bodily Pain

2026-05-05

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<p>Pain is a subjective experience that people often communicate through words. How do observers, from family members to medical professionals, interpret these reports? We propose that people use causal inference to infer someone else's subjective pain experience, treating the pain experience as an unobservable latent variable and the report as one of several sources of observations. We formalized this as Bayesian...

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Literature Corpus work: 207b3aa0-301e-51ac-a9fb-5b2e0ce4ea9d
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/nhgq9_v1

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