Erotic subset for the Nencki Affective Picture System (NAPS ERO): cross-sexual comparison study

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wierzba, Małgorzata ^a   Riegel, Monika ^a   Pucz, Anna ^b   Leśniewska, Zuzanna ^b   Dragan, Wojciech Ł ^b   Gola, Mateusz ^c,d   Jednoróg, Katarzyna ^a   Marchewka, Artur ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion; erotic stimuli; heterosexual; homosexual; Nencki Affective Picture System; sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950324223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01336     Document Type: Article

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