CU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor聽Tor Wager聽(Cognitive) was in the news, with an article about a recent publication appearing in CU Boulder Today. The research 聽demonstrated an expectancy effect when it comes to pain, in that the more participants were taught to expect pain, the more their brains responded in an fMRI聽to pain stimuli even if objectively the pain was not greater. Read the CU Boulder Today article, or read the in Nature Human Behavior.