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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"sexual arousal"”.
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Gender differences in cognitive interference with sexual arousal
… cognitive interference detrimentally influences sexuality, but little is known about the content of that interference. This study compared the self-reports of 220 college men and 337 college women on two types of cognitive interference during sex, performance-oriented and appearance-oriented. …
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Sexual Arousal and Mental Health in Bisexual Men
There is variation in the extent to which bisexual men get sexually aroused to both sexes. A different line of research suggests that they also vary in how vulnerable they are to mental health problems, compared to gay and straight men. The present study sought to investigate whether variation in …
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Development of the sexual arousal and desire inventory (SADI) for the assessment of the psychological and subjective experience of sexual arousal and desire
… the psychological and subjective experience of sexual arousal and desire. The first experiment included a three-questionnaire inventory that was filled out by 85 men and 156 women. Subjects provided demographic information in the first questionnaire and then rated 86 descriptors as they applied …
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Observer and target sexual arousal effects on heterosexual interpersonal behavior
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Influences of androgenisation and personality on female sexual orientation, behaviour, and arousal
… hormonal influences on sex differences in sexual arousal, with most men being aroused to one sex, and most women being aroused to both sexes. Within women, I also investigated whether prenatal hormonal influences explain why homosexual women have more male-typical arousal, and are more …
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A Cognitive-Motivational Approach to Understanding Gendered Sexual Response: the Role of Attentional Mechanisms
Sexual arousal involves changes in physiology, emotions, and cognitions, and is positively associated with sexual outcomes (e.g., sexual activity, sexual desire) and well-being (e.g., physical and mental health, overall quality of life). As such, factors that influence sexual arousal are expected …
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Being Transgender: Effects of Behaviour, Arousal and Wellbeing
… investigated the sex atypicality, physiological arousal, and wellbeing of transgender men (female to male) in order to better understand the behaviours and feelings of this under-researched group and to investigate the influences that one’s gender identity and birth sex may have on various …
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The Sexual Media: The Role Of Individual Differences
… individual difference approach to understanding sexual media effects was pursued. In Study I, personality (e.g., intelligence, aggression) and individual difference (e.g., prior sexual experience) factors were assessed in a sample of undergraduate males. These males also indicated their …
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Volunteer bias in sex research: effects of variable stimuli content and intrusiveness of measurement
… volunteers in terms of reporting increased heterosexual experience; more liberal attitudes toward sex; increased exposure to commercialized erotica; and an increase in sexual trauma. The object of this study was to investigate the effects that varying the stimuli content (i.e. heterosexual vs gay …
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The Role of Affect and Trait Sexual Desire in Sexual Response among Women with and without Symptoms of Sexual Interest and Arousal Disorder
According to the Incentive Motivation Model, sexual cue processing is influenced by both responses to the content of sexual cues, and by individual psychological factors, both of which may result in differences in sexual response. Affect to sexual cues has been shown to affect sexual response in …
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Personality characteristics, attitudes and perceptions of rape among incarcerated sex offenders
… that dispositional variables are determinants of sexual aggression. Research has also shown that situational variables, such as alcohol and anger, are recurrent proximal determinants of sexual aggression. This study pursued four main goals. First, we attempted to replicate Malamuth's Confluence …
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A Study on the Relations between sexuality and quality of life in diabetic women
… of this study was to investigate the level sexuality of diabetic women, and analized relations between sexuality and quality of life in diabetic women, provide basic data contributed in nursing intervention. A convenience sample consisted of 70 subjects with diabetes who attended outpatient …
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Modern technological environments and individual differences in attractiveness perceptions from physical characteristics
… access to many novel social, romantic, and sexual partners, potentially generating what social psychologists refer to as an ‘assessment mindset’, where a large pool of online dating options orient daters towards novel mates in the hopes of finding an optimal partner, rather than committing …
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Predictors of recidivism in a population of Canadian sex offenders: Psychological, physiological, and offence factors.
… variables and recidivism in a sample of 588 sexual offenders assessed at the Sexual Behaviours Clinic (SBC) of the Royal Ottawa Hospital between the years 1983 and 1992, and who were convicted of a contact sexual offence. The 588 sexual offenders in the study were categorized four groups: (1) …
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The Discordant Development of Sexual Orientation in Identical Twins
… how genetically identical twins with discordant sexual orientations differed in correlates of their sexual orientation in order to understand to what degree non-genetic factors affect the formation of sexual orientation. Because identical twins share 100% of their genes, factors other than …
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Examining the Use of Hebephilia and Paraphilia Non-consent in Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) Evaluations
<p>Sexually violent predator (SVP) legislation requires, in part, that an individual has a mental abnormality which causes difficulty in controlling sexual behavior. Previous research has found paraphilia not otherwise specified (NOS) to be one of the most prevalent diagnoses proffered in SVP …
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A Comparison of Systematic Desensitization and Directed Masturbation in the Treatment of Primary Orgasmic Dysfunction in Females
… by feelings of anxiety or aversion to sexual activity. Following screening, subjects completed a battery of self-report measures assessing sexual activity, functioning and anxiety. Subjects were then rank-ordered on the basis of these scores, randomly distributed from stratified blocks, …
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Patterns of Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Abuse of Women by College Men: Multivariate Examination of Attitudes Toward Women, Social Environment, Psychopathology, and Childhood Exposure to Abuse
… of men's patterns of abusing women. Individual sexual abusiveness, group rape/group sex involvement, physical abusiveness, and emotional abusiveness were examined. Data were analyzed from 255 college student men who anonymously reported their abuse of women since the age of 14. All four types of …
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