Research Interests

• Pain Psychology
• Existential Psychology
• Self-conscious Emotions

Recent Publications, Presentations, and Awards

CLLA Summer Dissertation Fellowship Award ($7000) – Texas A&M University

Boring, B.L., Ng, B., Nanavaty, N., & Mathur, V.A. (2022). Over-rating pain is overrated: A fundamental self-other bias in pain reporting behavior. Journal of Pain. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2022.06.002

Walsh, K.T., Boring, B.L., Nanavaty, N., Guzman, H., & Mathur, V.A. (2022). Sociocultural context and pre-clinical pain facilitation: Multiple dimensions of racialized discrimination experienced by Latinx Americans are associated with temporal summation of pain. Journal of Pain. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2022.06.004

Boring, B.L., Maffly-Kipp, J., Mathur, V.A., & Hicks, J.A. (2022). Meaning in life and pain: The differential effects of coherence, purpose, and mattering on pain severity, frequency, and the development of chronic pain. Journal of Pain Research, 15:299-314. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S338691