I wouldn’t expect people to be able to adapt to severe pain, not when you consider the evolutionary advantages of always taking your hand out of the fire. I’d expect people to die before they got used to pain.
Sorry. Severe pain may have been a bad example. Other high-DALY-weight conditions do seem to show hedonic adaptation though, e.g. paraplegia (see my response to Lila for sources).
Sorry. Severe pain may have been a bad example. Other high-DALY-weight conditions do seem to show hedonic adaptation though, e.g. paraplegia (see my response to Lila for sources).