Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently
expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The …

Many recognize that several behaviors potentially affecting the reward circuitry in human
brains lead to a loss of control and other symptoms of addiction in at least some individuals …

Louann Brizendine, MD, is a neuropsychiatrist whose professional career has been devoted
to studying the female brain and writing and lecturing to both the public and professionals …

A relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication Close Encounters:
Communication in Relationships, Fifth Edition helps students better understand their …

This article reviews what is currently known about how men and women respond to the
presentation of visual sexual stimuli. While the assumption that men respond more to visual …

Studies of human physical traits and mate preferences often use questionnaires asking
participants to rate the attractiveness of images. Female waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), breast …

Recent research suggests profound sex and sexual orientation differences in sexual
response. These results, however, are based on measures of genital arousal, which have …

Category-specific sexual response describes a pattern wherein the individual shows
significantly greater responses to preferred versus nonpreferred categories of sexual stimuli; …

Given that the sharing of genital images–colloquially known as “dick pics”–has become a
widespread phenomenon, the purpose of the present study was to explore men's …

Compulsive sexual behaviour (CSB) is relatively common and has been associated with
significant distress and psychosocial impairments. CSB has been conceptualized as either …