Table 5.

Correlation matrix depicting pain threshold and tolerance in the posttreatment phase and differences between the pretreatment and posttreatment phases during nocebo instructions with measures of state and trait anxiety, fear of pain, expectations of treatment efficacy and pain, as well as measures of attentional bias.

	Threshold	Threshold pre–post	Tolerance	Tolerance pre–post
State anxiety	0.291	0.052	0.337	−0.054
State anxiety pre–post	0.209	0.100	0.059	−0.112
Expectancy treatment	−0.066	−0.091	−0.008	0.017
Expectancy pain	−0.041	−0.272	0.334	0.121
Trait anxiety	0.042	−0.140	0.006	−0.201
Fear of pain	0.012	0.090	−0.117	0.065
Fear of pain—medical	−0.126	−0.064	−0.160	−0.019
Fear of pain—severe	−0.042	0.098	−0.173	0.014
Fear of pain—minor	0.169	0.200	−0.012	0.156
Attentional bias affective 500 ms	0.348	0.418*	0.098	0.301
Attentional bias sensory 500 ms	0.030	0.106	−0.053	−0.064
Attentional bias affective 1250 ms	−0.225	−0.224	0.096	−0.083
Attentional bias sensory 1250 ms	0.276	0.131	0.323	0.332

^*Significant correlations are marked with a (P < 0.05).