Attention and emotional responses to sexual stimuli and their relationship to sexual desire

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 934-949

  Prause, Nicole ^a   Janssen, Erick ^a   Hetrick, William P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dot probe detection; Hypoactive sexual desire disorder; Sexual arousability; Sexual desire; Startle eyeblink modification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUALITY; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BLINKING; CONSCIOUSNESS; EROTICA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIBIDO; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 55149083804     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-007-9236-6     Document Type: Article

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