Researchers assess perceived pain sensitivity through fictional vignettes of foot injury.

Evidence

There are a number of people listed below, some still alive, some dead—answer the questions as if they were all alive today. Imagine each of them walking in bare feet while unbeknownst to them there is a piece of glass in the carpet, and they step on it. The glass cuts into the bottom of their foot. — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 61

Categorization

• SHARE: Worth sharing with anyone designing moral-status or dehumanization experiments — the ‘suspended for dead/alive targets, step on glass’ vignette is an elegant universal pain probe.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 61
• XREF: connects to: The feeling of pain depends on how it is socially expressed — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 429; Physicians documented Black pain-imperviousness with personal amputation anecdotes — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 965

Broader Connections

• Physicians documented Black pain-imperviousness with personal amputation anecdotes #exemplifies (0.78) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 965
• The feeling of pain depends on how it is socially expressed #qualifies (0.71) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 429