Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich<p>Improving Numerical Measures of Human Feelings: The Case of Pain <a href="https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lan:wpaper:421926304&r=&r=exp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lan:wpap</span><span class="invisible">er:421926304&r=&r=exp</span></a><br>"… proposed and validated a new method to measure the experienced intensity of acute pain across individuals. This method proved to be overwhelmingly more accurate and sensitive than standard, established methods for experimentally-induced acute pain which are used in medical, clinical and research applications<br>… In the case of experienced pain intensity, the mechanism that enables the new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/measurement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measurement</span></a> method to excel might indeed be rooted in its well-calibrated scale: <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a>. <br>… Money-free standard methods ask people for numerical estimations of their experiences without a benchmark for the numerical scale, which might lead them to choose salient numbers or intermediate values. <br>… Monetary amounts provide interpersonally comparable references and thereby reduce the intrinsic subjectivity in pain measurements.<br>… The use of monetary incentives is unproblematic for those applications, as it is already common practice to reward participation in them"<br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ExperimentalEcon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalEcon</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/calibration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>calibration</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/validity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>validity</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/interpersonalComparison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interpersonalComparison</span></a></p>