Novelty, Conditioning and Attentional Bias to Sexual Rewards

AUTHOR(S)

Banca, Paula; Morris, Laurel S.; Mitchell, Simon; Harrison, Neil A.; Potenza, Marc N.; and Voon, Valerie

PUBLISHED

2016 in Journal of Psychiatric Research, Vol. 72, pp. 91-101

KEY FINDINGS
  • This study shows that compulsive sexual behavior individuals have a dysfunctional enhanced preference for sexual novelty possibly mediated by greater cingulate habituation along with a generalized enhancement of conditioning to rewards.
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Neural Substrates of Sexual Desire in Individuals with Problematic Hypersexual Behavior

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Seok, Ji-Woo; and Sohn, Jin-Hun

PUBLISHED

2015 in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 9, pp. 321

KEY FINDINGS
  • Consistent with the findings of brain imaging studies of substance and behavior addiction, this study found that individuals with the behavioral characteristics of problematic hypersexual behaviors have enhanced desire exhibited altered activation in the prefrontal cortex and subcortical regions.
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“Without Porn… I Wouldn’t Know Half the Things I Know Now”: A Qualitative Study of Pornography Use Among a Sample of Urban, Low-Income, Black and Hispanic Youth

AUTHOR(S)

Rothman, Emily F.; Kaczmarsky, Courtney; Burke, Nina; Jansen, Emily; and Baughman, Allyson

PUBLISHED

2015 in Journal of Sex Research

KEY FINDINGS
  • This qualitative look into how teenagers understand and use pornography found that they tend to report that pornography is a normal part of their lives, that they use porn to learn about sex, and that they can feel pressured to imitate or create porn during their sexual encounters.
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Implicit Associations in Cybersex Addiction: Adaption of an Implicit Association Test with Pornographic Pictures

AUTHOR(S)

Snagowski, Jan; Wegmann, Elisa; Pekal, Jaro; Laier, Christian; and Brand, Matthias

PUBLISHED

2015 in Addictive Behaviors, Vol. 49, pp. 7-12

KEY FINDINGS
  • Results show positive relationships between implicit associations of pornographic pictures with positive emotions and tendencies towards cybersex addiction, problematic sexual behavior, sensitivity towards sexual excitation as well as subjective craving.
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Sexual Excitability and Dysfunctional Coping Determine Cybersex Addiction in Homosexual Male

AUTHOR(S)

Laier, Christian; Pekal, Jaro; and Brand, Matthias

PUBLISHED

2015 in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, Vol. 18(10), pp. 575-580

KEY FINDINGS
  • This study found strong correlations between Cybersex addiction symptoms and indicators of sexual arousal and sexual excitability, coping by sexual behaviors, and psychological symptoms...these results are comparable with those reported for heterosexual males and females in previous studies and highlight the role of positive and negative reinforcement due to cybersex use.
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Neuroscience of Internet Pornography Addiction: A Review and Update

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Love, Todd; Laier, Christian; Brand, Matthias; Hatch, Linda; and Hajela, Raju

PUBLISHED

2015 in Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 5(3), pp. 388–433.

KEY FINDINGS
  • This literature review article summarises dozens of studies and concludes that the net result of this inquiry has yielded a very large number of neuroscience based studies that support the application of the addiction model to addictive Internet-related behaviors - including pornography addiction.
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Symptoms of Cybersex Addiction Can Be Linked to Both Approaching and Avoiding Prnographic Stimuli: Results From an Analog Sample of Regular Cybersex Users

AUTHOR(S)

Snagowski, Jan; and Brand, Matthias

PUBLISHED

2015 in Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 6, pp. 653

KEY FINDINGS
  • Results showed that individuals with tendencies toward cybersex addiction tended to either approach or avoid pornographic stimuli...these findings provide further empirical evidence for similarities between cybersex addiction and substance dependencies.
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