ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2023
Sexual Stimuli Cause Behavioral Disinhibition in Both Men and Women, but Even More So in Men.
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- The influence of emotional stimuli on response inhibition: a systematic review in non-clinical adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- A Dress Is (Still) Not a Yes: How Even Simple Key Presses Reveal Sexually Aroused Men's Overreliance on Global Cues in the Context of Sexual Flirting.Archives of sexual behavior · 2026Article
- Integrating the Confluence Model and I³ Model to predict sexual assault perpetration intentions.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Article
- Psychologists should study basic social cognition processes within the context of sexual interactions.Communications psychology · 2024Review
- A Theory on the Nonlinear Relationship of Sexual Behavior and Aggression.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2024Review
- A Dress Is Not a Yes: Towards an Indirect Mouse-Tracking Measure of Men's Overreliance on Global Cues in the Context of Sexual Flirting.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Sex Differences in Sexual Motivation in Humans and Other Mammals: The Role of Conscious and Unconscious Processes.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Alcohol and Emotion Regulation Interventions: Effects on Men's Sexual Arousal, Impulsivity, Cognitions Regarding Sexual Consequences, and Sexually Coercive Tactics.Applied cognitive psychologyArticle
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Abstract
In our society men are considered more impulsive than women, especially in the violent and sexual domain. This correlation of sex and impulsivity might trace back to enhanced male impulsivity in general or a domain specific effect of emotions on impulsivity. The evidence for sex differences in the interaction of emotional or sexual stimuli and impulsivity has been relatively inconclusive so far. In this study, we investigated the effects of various emotional stimuli on responsivity in a Go/No-Go task. Participants had to respond quickly to a visual cue and withhold their response to another visual cue, while different emotional pictures were presented in the background, including sexual stimuli, non-sexual positive stimuli and negative stimuli. Both men (N = 37) and women (N = 38) made most commission errors in the sexual condition, indicating a disinhibiting effect in both genders. On top of this, men made even more commission errors than women, specifically in the sexual condition and not in other conditions. Men rated sexual stimuli as more positive, but did not differ from women in arousal ratings and pupil dilation. These findings may partly indicate increased impulsive behavior under sexual arousal in men, most likely driven by enhanced approach motivation due to more positive value but not higher arousal of sexual stimuli. The results are consistent with the theory of evolutionarily based concealment of sexual interest in women.
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