Measures of implicit and explicit attitudes toward mainstream and BDSM sexual terms using the IRAP and questionnaire with BDSM/fetish and student participants

Psychological Record

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 307-324

  Stockwell, Fawna M J ^a   Walker, Diana J ^a   Eshleman, John W ^a  

^a THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

BDSM; Implicit relational assessment procedure; Relational frame theory; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952847367     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03395709     Document Type: Article

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