Vicarious viewing time: Prolonged response latencies for sexually attractive targets as a function of task- or stimulus-specific processing

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1389-1401

  Imhoff, Roland ^a   Schmidt, Alexander F ^a   Weiß, Simone ^a   Young, Andrew W ^b   Banse, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive processes; Faking; Indirect measure; Sexual preference; Viewing time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ADULT; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876471281     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-011-9879-1     Document Type: Article

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