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Gender-Specificity of Initial and Controlled Visual Attention to Sexual Stimuli
in Androphilic Women and Gynephilic Men
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Dawson SJ
; Chivers ML
PLoS One
2016[]; 11
(4
): e0152785
PMID27088358
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Research across groups and methods consistently finds a gender difference in
patterns of specificity of genital response; however, empirically supported
mechanisms to explain this difference are lacking. The information-processing
model of sexual arousal posits that automatic and controlled cognitive processes
are requisite for the generation of sexual responses. Androphilic women's
gender-nonspecific response patterns may be the result of sexually-relevant cues
that are common to both preferred and nonpreferred genders capturing attention
and initiating an automatic sexual response, whereas men's attentional system may
be biased towards the detection and response to sexually-preferred cues only. In
the present study, we used eye tracking to assess visual attention to
sexually-preferred and nonpreferred cues in a sample of androphilic women and
gynephilic men. Results support predictions from the information-processing model
regarding gendered processing of sexual stimuli in men and women. Men's initial
attention patterns were gender-specific, whereas women's were nonspecific. In
contrast, both men and women exhibited gender-specific patterns of controlled
attention, although this effect was stronger among men. Finally, measures of
attention and self-reported attraction were positively related in both men and
women. These findings are discussed in the context of the information-processing
model and evolutionary mechanisms that may have evolved to promote gendered
attentional systems.
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