Automatic partner attitudes: Sources, implications, and future directions

R Faure, JK McNulty… - Social and Personality …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Satisfying romantic relationships offer numerous social and health benefits, making it critical
to understand the trajectory of relationship satisfaction. In recent years, research has begun …

The enticement of feeling understood, validated, and cared for: How does perceiving a partner as responsive affect the sexual arena?

GE Birnbaum - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Partners' behaviors outside the bedroom may spill over into the bedroom. One such
behavior is responsiveness, as it creates a relationship ambiance conducive to the …

Hope and Enthusiasm/Excitement

M Milona, H Threadgill, P Gable - Emotion Theory: The Routledge …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Hope and enthusiasm are future-oriented emotional states related to motivationally
important outcomes. The study of both emotions has a rich historical background deeply …

Validation of the sexual desire inventory in Colombia

P Vallejo-Medina, I Rojas-Paoli… - Journal of Sex & Marital …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Sexual desire is a cognitive and affective state that motivates an individual to engage in
sexual activity. There are no validated measures to assess this construct in Colombia. The …

Sexual desire mediates the relationship-promoting effects of perceived partner mate value

GE Birnbaum, Y Kanat-Maymon, EB Slotter… - Archives of Sexual …, 2021 - Springer
Although sexual desire for one's partner is theorized to serve as a gut-level indicator of
partner mate value that motivates investment in valued partners, there is scant empirical …

[HTML][HTML] Factors influencing low sexual desire and sexual distress in pregnancy: A cross-sectional study

M Malary, M Moosazadeh, A Keramat… - International Journal …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Sexual desire and sexual distress are determined by emotional, psychosocial,
hormonal, and anatomical factors during pregnancy. Objective To identify the factors …

Erotic pleasure and pleasure-seeking associated with implicit and explicit sexual motives

CA Hill - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2021 - Springer
Two studies examined the proposal that implicit and explicit sexual motives are associated
with the experience of pleasure in sexual situations, as well as with seeking out sexual …

[HTML][HTML] Psychological perceptions of women with sexual arousal disorder: a qualitative study in Iranian culture

Z Halvaiepour, HR Oreyzi, M Nosratabadi… - Journal of Family & …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: Psychological perceptions are concerned with how a person perceives and
psychologically frames life with an illness. The current study sought to examine the …

The influence of groove on sexual attraction: Evidence for an effect of misattributed arousal in males but not females

CS Lee, M Zaryab - Empirical Musicology Review, 2022 - emusicology.org
Abstract First described by Schachter & Singer (1962), the phenomenon of misattributed
arousal (arousal perceived as coming from a wrongly presumed source and irrelevantly …

Conceptualizing the Friendzone Phenomenon

LE LeFebvre, RD Rasner, CJ Kickert… - Imagination …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores the friendzone, or the lexicon surrounding the nexus between platonic
and romantic relationships. The friendzone situates layperson and scholarly depictions of …