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Attentional and Affective Processing of Sexual Stimuli in Women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder

Archives of sexual behavior, 2012-08, Vol.41 (4), p.891-905 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 ;Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 ;ISSN: 0004-0002 ;EISSN: 1573-2800 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10508-011-9820-7 ;PMID: 21892693 ;CODEN: ASXBA8

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Title:
Attentional and Affective Processing of Sexual Stimuli in Women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
Author: Brauer, Marieke ; van Leeuwen, Matthijs ; Janssen, Erick ; Newhouse, Sarah K. ; Heiman, Julia R. ; Laan, Ellen
Subjects: Adult ; Affect - physiology ; Association ; Attention - physiology ; Behavioral Science and Psychology ; Erotica ; Female ; Humans ; Libido - physiology ; Original Paper ; Photic Stimulation ; Psychology ; Public Health ; Reaction Time - physiology ; Sexual Behavior ; Sexual disorders ; Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological - physiopathology ; Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological - psychology ; Sexuality ; Social Sciences ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Women
Is Part Of: Archives of sexual behavior, 2012-08, Vol.41 (4), p.891-905
Description: Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) is the most common sexual problem in women. From an incentive motivation perspective, HSDD may be the result of a weak association between sexual stimuli and rewarding experiences. As a consequence, these stimuli may either lose or fail to acquire a positive meaning, resulting in a limited number of incentives that have the capacity to elicit a sexual response. According to current information processing models of sexual arousal, sexual stimuli automatically activate meanings and if these are not predominantly positive, processes relevant to the activation of sexual arousal and desire may be interrupted. Premenopausal U.S. and Dutch women with acquired HSDD ( n = 42) and a control group of sexually functional women ( n = 42) completed a single target Implicit Association Task and a Picture Association Task assessing automatic affective associations with sexual stimuli and a dot detection task measuring attentional capture by sexual stimuli. Results showed that women with acquired HSDD displayed less positive (but not more negative) automatic associations with sexual stimuli than sexually functional women. The same pattern was found for self-reported affective sex-related associations. Participants were slower to detect targets in the dot detection task that replaced sexual images, irrespective of sexual function status. As such, the findings point to the relevance of affective processing of sexual stimuli in women with HSDD, and imply that the treatment of HSDD might benefit from a stronger emphasis on the strengthening of the association between sexual stimuli and positive meaning and sexual reward.
Publisher: Boston: Springer US
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0004-0002
EISSN: 1573-2800
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-011-9820-7
PMID: 21892693
CODEN: ASXBA8
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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Attentional and Affective Processing of Sexual Stimuli in Women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 ;Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 ;ISSN: 0004-0002 ;EISSN: 1573-2800 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10508-011-9820-7 ;PMID: 21892693 ;CODEN: ASXBA8

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