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==Effects Behavioral effects of unanesthetized infant circumcision==
The focus then turned to investigation of the effects of unanesthetized infant circumcision. Doctors falsely believed that newborn infants could not feel pain,<ref name="cope">{{REFjournal
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Porter ''et al''. (1988) recorded the cries of boys undergoing non-therapeutic child circumcision. They found that the pitch of the cries increased as stress (euphemism for pain) increases.<ref name="porter1988">{{REFjournal
|last=Porter
|first=Fran Lang
|author-link=
|last2=Porges
|first2=Stephen W.
|author2-link=
|last3=Marshall
|first3=Richard E.
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Newborn pain cries and vagal tone: Parallel changes in response to circumcision
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Child Dev
|location=
|date=1988-04
|volume=59
|issue=2
|pages=495-505
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/porter2/
|quote=
|pubmedID=3359867
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=2019-12-06
}}</ref>
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