"I can see you": The impact of implied social presence on visual attention to erotic and neutral stimuli in men and women...45th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sex Research Forum, Toronto, Ontario, October 11–13, 2018
The watchful eye of others often leads people to alter their behaviour. Eye tracking methodology has been used to create implied social presence, as well as to examine gaze patterns to erotic stimuli, but the effects of implied social presence on visual attention to erotic and neutral stimuli remain...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 105 - 120 |
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| Formato: | proceedings research tables/charts Journal Article |
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University of Toronto Press
2019
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