Initial Orienting Towards Sexually Relevant Stimuli: Preliminary Evidence from Eye Movement Measures.
It has been proposed that sexual stimuli will be processed in a comparable manner to other evolutionarily meaningful stimuli (such as spiders or snakes) and therefore elicit an attentional bias and more attentional engagement (Spiering and Everaerd, In E. Janssen (Ed.), The psychophysiology of sex (...
| Publicado en: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 919 - 929 |
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