About the Authors

Jarred Younger

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Arthur Aron

Affiliation Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Sara Parke

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Neil Chatterjee

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Sean Mackey

smackey@pain.stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWY AA SM. Performed the experiments: JWY SP. Analyzed the data: JWY NC. Wrote the paper: JWY AA SP NC SM.