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ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2015

Late positive potential to explicit sexual images associated with the number of sexual intercourse partners.

Nicole Prause, Vaughn R Steele, Cameron Staley, Dean Sabatinelli

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Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicole PrauseDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, 760 Westwood Blvd 38-145, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA, The Mind Research Network and University of New Mexico, 101 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87106 USA, Idaho State University, Counseling and Testing Center, 921 South 8th Avenue, Pocatello, ID, 83209 USA, and Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602-3013 USA Nicole.Prause@gmail.com.
Vaughn R SteeleDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, 760 Westwood Blvd 38-145, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA, The Mind Research Network and University of New Mexico, 101 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87106 USA, Idaho State University, Counseling and Testing Center, 921 South 8th Avenue, Pocatello, ID, 83209 USA, and Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602-3013 USA.
Cameron StaleyDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, 760 Westwood Blvd 38-145, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA, The Mind Research Network and University of New Mexico, 101 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87106 USA, Idaho State University, Counseling and Testing Center, 921 South 8th Avenue, Pocatello, ID, 83209 USA, and Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602-3013 USA.
Dean SabatinelliDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, 760 Westwood Blvd 38-145, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA, The Mind Research Network and University of New Mexico, 101 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87106 USA, Idaho State University, Counseling and Testing Center, 921 South 8th Avenue, Pocatello, ID, 83209 USA, and Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602-3013 USA.
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Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Risky sexual behaviors typically occur when a person is sexually motivated by potent, sexual reward cues. Yet, individual differences in sensitivity to sexual cues have not been examined with respect to sexual risk behaviors. A greater responsiveness to sexual cues might provide greater motivation for a person to act sexually; a lower responsiveness to sexual cues might lead a person to seek more intense, novel, possibly risky, sexual acts. In this study, event-related potentials were recorded in 64 men and women while they viewed a series of emotional, including explicit sexual, photographs. The motivational salience of the sexual cues was varied by including more and less explicit sexual images. Indeed, the more explicit sexual stimuli resulted in enhanced late positive potentials (LPP) relative to the less explicit sexual images. Participants with fewer sexual intercourse partners in the last year had reduced LPP amplitude to the less explicit sexual images than the more explicit sexual images, whereas participants with more partners responded similarly to the more and less explicit sexual images. This pattern of results is consistent with a greater responsivity model. Those who engage in more sexual behaviors consistent with risk are also more responsive to less explicit sexual cues.

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PMID24526189
PMCPMC4994844
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