Gender Differences in Liking and Wanting Sex: Examining the Role of Motivational Context and Implicit Versus Explicit Processing

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• 作者：Marieke Dewitte
• 关键词：Sexual appraisal ; Information processing ; Gender differences ; Sexual desire
• 刊名：Archives of Sexual Behavior
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：44
• 期：6
• 页码：1663-1674
• 全文大小：481 KB
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• 作者单位：Marieke Dewitte (1) (2)
  
  1. Department of Experimental, Clinical, and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
  2. Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ER, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Sexual Behavior
  Social Sciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2800

文摘

The present study investigated the specificity of sexual appraisal processes by making a distinction between implicit and explicit appraisals and between the affective (liking) and motivational (wanting) valence of sexual stimuli. These appraisals are assumed to diverge between men and women, depending on the context in which the sexual stimulus is encountered. Using an Implicit Association Test, explicit ratings, and film clips to prime a sexual, romantic or neutral motivational context, we investigated whether liking and wanting of sexual stimuli differed at the implicit and explicit level, differed between men and women, and were differentially sensitive to context manipulations. Results showed that, at the implicit level, women wanted more sex after being primed with romantic mood whereas men showed the least wanting of sex in the romantic condition. At the explicit level, men reported greater liking and wanting of sex than women, independently of context. We also found that women’s (self-reported) sexual behavior was best predicted by the incentive salience of sexual stimuli whereas men’s sexual behavior was more closely related to the hedonic qualities of sexual stimuli. Results were discussed in relation to an emotion-motivational account of sexual functioning.