Attention and Emotional Responses to Sexual Stimuli and Their Relationship to Sexual Desire
Attention and Emotional Responses to Sexual Stimuli and Their Relationship to Sexual Desire
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DOI：
10.1007/s10508-007-9236-6
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
N. Prause;E. Janssen;W. Hetrick
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作者：
N. Prause;E. Janssen;W. Hetrick
人们对为什么个体的性欲水平存在差异知之甚少。信息处理模型，如巴洛（《咨询与临床心理学杂志》54：140-148，1986）的性功能模型，表明性欲较高的个体比性欲水平较低的个体更多地关注性暗示，并对性暗示做出更愉快的情绪反应。在这项研究中，69 名参与者（36 名女性，33 名男性）完成了一项测量性刺激引起的注意力捕获的点检测任务和一项索引对情感刺激的情绪反应效价的惊愕眨眼调制任务。性欲水平高的参与者在取代性图像的点检测任务中检测目标的速度较慢，但对性刺激的惊恐眨眼反应没有差异。结果表明，性刺激引起的注意力程度比此类刺激引起的情绪反应的效价更能预测一个人的性欲水平。
Little is known about why individuals vary in their levels of sexual desire. Information processing models, like Barlow’s (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology54:140–148, 1986) model of sexual functioning, suggest that individuals with higher sexual desire attend more and respond with more pleasant emotions to sexual cues than individuals with lower levels of sexual desire. In this study, 69 participants (36 women, 33 men) completed a dot detection task measuring attention capture by sexual stimuli and a startle eyeblink modulation task indexing the valence of emotional response to affective stimuli. Participants with high levels of sexual desire wereslowerto detect targets in the dot detection task that replaced sexual images butdid not differin startle eyeblink responses to sexual stimuli. The results suggest that the amount of attention captured by sexual stimuli is a stronger predictor of a person’s sexual desire level than the valence of the emotional responses elicited by such stimuli.