A recent study asserts that pain, when inflicted intentionally, feels worse then if it was an accident. An article in The New York Times reports that a study, published in a recent issue of Psychological Science, shows that people feel pain as being worse when someone is inflicting it versus it being random or unintentional. It would be interesting to run a study that tests acupuncture given by a caring and compassionate person versus being administered by a mechanical robot!

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