AUTHOR(S)

Banca, Paula, Harrison, Neil A., Irvine, Michael, Karr, Judy, Lapa, Tatyana R., Mitchell, Simon, Mole, Thomas B., Morris, Laurel S., Porter, Laura, Potenza, Marc N., and Voon, Valerie

PUBLISHED

2014 in PLoS ONE 9(7): e102419. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102419

KEY FINDINGS

• Relative to healthy volunteers, compulsive sexual behavior individuals had greater desire, but similar liking scores in response to the sexually explicit videos; this dissociation between desire or wanting and liking is consistent with theories of incentive motivation underlying CSB as in drug addictions.