Appetitive and aversive classical conditioning of female sexual response

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1386-1401

  Both, Stephanie ^a   Laan, Ellen ^b   Spiering, Mark ^b   Nilsson, Tove ^b   Oomens, Sanne ^b   Everaerd, Walter ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Appetitive conditioning; Aversive conditioning; Classical Conditioning; Female sexual response; Sexual arousal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EROTISM; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 44949233738     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2008.00815.x     Document Type: Article

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