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Supports feasibility of self-administered pain intensity scaling; leaves open reliable unpleasantness calibration pending further validation.
A self-administered psychophysical scaling method is feasible for pain intensity, though unpleasantness descriptors are more difficult for subjects to calibrate reliably.
Stephen Morley (1988) studied this question.
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