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An elevated plus-maze in mixed reality for studying human anxiety-related behavior

BMC Biology, 2017
Background A dearth of laboratory tests to study actual human approach-avoidance behavior has complicated translational research on anxiety. The elevated plus-maze (EPM) is the gold standard to assess approach-avoidance behavior in rodents. Methods Here,
Sarah V. Biedermann, Daniel G. Biedermann, Frederike Wenzlaff, Tim Kurjak, Sawis Nouri, Matthias K. Auer, Klaus Wiedemann, Peer Briken, Jan Haaker, Tina B. Lonsdorf, Johannes Fuss   +10 more
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Safe Sex Behavior among Commercial Sex Workers in Banjarsari, Surakarta, Central Java, and its Associated Factors [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Worldwide it is estimated that more than one million people in contract sexually-transmitted disease (STDs) everyday. Annually approximately 357 million new infections occur by one of four STDs: chlamidia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and mouth ulcer.
Ambarsari, M. H. (Maecelina), Demartoto, A. (Argyo), Wekadigunawan, C. S. (Cri)   +2 more
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Young men’s shame about their desire for other men predicts risky sex and moderates the knowledge - self-efficacy link.

Frontiers in Public Health, 2014
Background: Recent findings suggest that a strong negative social emotion (i.e., shame) increases YMSM’s sexual risk-taking. Unchangeable shame (e.g., desire for other men) might undermine (moderate) the link between knowledge and self-efficacy or ...
Mina ePark, Janeane Nicole Anderson, John L Christensen, Lynn Carol Miller, Paul Robert Appleby, Stephen John Read   +5 more
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Frequent and Recent Non-fatal Strangulation/Choking During Sex and Its Association With fMRI Activation During Working Memory Tasks

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022
Being strangled, or “choked,” by a sexual partner has emerged as a prevalent, often wanted and consensual sexual behavior among adolescent and young adult women, yet the neurological consequences of repeated exposure to this behavior are unknown.
Megan E. Huibregtse, Isabella L. Alexander, Lillian M. Klemsz, Tsung-chieh Fu, Tsung-chieh Fu, J. Dennis Fortenberry, Debby Herbenick, Debby Herbenick, Keisuke Kawata, Keisuke Kawata   +9 more
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Sex and Behavior

, 2023
AbstractWe provide a conceptual primer for sexual selection and conflict, mating systems, and socio-sexual behaviors and patterns among animals, largely with mammalian and cetacean examples. The important roles of mate choice are discussed (including female choice) and the occasional fluidity of sexual roles.
Bernd Würsig, Jacquline Rich, Dara N. Orbach   +2 more
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Stress, sex, and motivated behaviors [PDF]

Journal of Neuroscience Research, 2016
Stress is a major risk factor for development of psychiatric disorders such as depression and development of substance use disorder. Although there are important sex differences in the prevalence of these disorders, most preclinical models used to study stress‐induced disorders have used males only.
Laman‐Maharg, Abigail, Trainor, Brian C   +1 more
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Sperm Numbers as a Paternity Guard in a Wild Bird

Cells, 2022
Sperm competition is thought to impose strong selection on males to produce competitive ejaculates to outcompete rival males under competitive mating conditions.
Melissah Rowe, Annabel van Oort, Lyanne Brouwer, Jan T. Lifjeld, Michael S. Webster, Joseph F. Welklin, Daniel T. Baldassarre   +6 more
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Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist [PDF]

, 2005
In The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, Adam Smith famously argued that economic behavior was motivated by self-interest. But 17 years earlier in 1759, Smith had proposed a theory of human behavior that looks anything but self-interested.
Ashraf, Nava, Camerer, Colin F., Loewenstein, George   +2 more
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Amygdala reactivity predicts adolescent antisocial behavior but not callous-unemotional traits. [PDF]

, 2017
Recent neuroimaging studies have suggested divergent relationships between antisocial behavior (AB) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits and amygdala reactivity to fearful and angry facial expressions in adolescents.
Dotterer, Hailey L, Hariri, Ahmad R, Hyde, Luke W, Swartz, Johnna R, Williamson, Douglas E   +4 more
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Gender differences in liking and wanting sex: examining the role of motivational context and implicit versus explicit processing [PDF]

, 2014
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.
Dewitte, Marieke
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