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How does torture affect our perception of pain?
Does knowing that someone is inflicting pain on you deliberately make the pain worse? Dr Katja Wiech and Professor Irene Tracey from the University of Oxford, UK talk about Katja's experiment to see if the intention to hurt somebody actually changes the perception of pain.
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