Encouragement and reassurance from a trusted romantic partner can ease the body's response to pain during childbirth and other acute episodes, research by a Penn State Behrend professor shows.
Elisabeth Whyte, a postdoctoral research assistant and psychology lecturer in the College of the Liberal Arts, and Samantha Lavan, a student in the School of Visual Arts, play the first level of the autism social skills game.
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Can kind words ease childbirth?
Encouragement and reassurance from a trusted romantic partner can ease the body's response to pain during childbirth and other acute episodes, research by a Penn State Behrend professor shows.