Assessment of female sexual arousal: Response specificity and construct validity
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Assessment of female sexual arousal: response specificity and construct validity.
Specificity of vaginal pulse amplitude and vaginal blood volume in reaction to visual sexual stimuli was investigated by comparing responses to sexual, anxiety-inducing, sexually threatening, and neutral film excerpts. Subjective sexual arousal, body sensations, emotional experience, skin conductance, and heart rate were monitored along with the genital measures. Self-report data confirmed the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychophysiology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0048-5772,1469-8986
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1995.tb02099.x