Sexual Orientation Affects Neural Responses to Subtle Social Aggression Signals.
The current series of studies are the first to examine brain responses to social aggression signals as a function of male and female sexual orientation. For the first set of studies (1a, 1b), axillary sweat had been collected from 17 heterosexual men and 17 heterosexual women aggressively responding...
| Published in: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 153 - 176 |
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Springer Nature
Jan2024
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