Else-Marie Elmholdt Jegindø 
MA
PhD student

E-mail: else-marie@cfin.dk
Phone: +45 8949 9935

Department of the Study of Religion, Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and The Danish Pain Research Center, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

My main research interest is the relationship between beliefs and physiological processes. My PhD project is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious coping strategies and explores how religious practice modulates pain perception, both clinically and "in the wild". This research project is primarily empirical and combines a wide range of different measures, e.g. clinical pain assessment, psychometrics, psychophysiological measures and functional neuroscience.

Fields of research: cognitive science of religion, clinical pain research, experimental cognitive neuroscience, psychology of religion, deep brain stimulation, pain and ANS functions. Research interests: religious coping, religious behaviour, high arousal rituals and pain, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive and emotional modulation of pain and fear, placebo mechanisms.

In 2010 I organized a field work expedition to Mauritius with my colleagues Dimitris Xygalatas and Marianne Q. Fibiger. My aim was to explore how the participants experienced and coped with pain during the Thaipoosam Festival.