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Thermographic measurement was discovered to be a valid method for assessing human sexual arousal, in that it achieved adequate discriminant validity and that it covaried with self-reports of sexual arousal. The advantages of this procedure over other physiological methods are that it provides a thermogram indicating flow rate and transfer of heat, allows for cross-gender comparisons, and is a more ecologically valid method of assessing sexual arousal.
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This research was supported in part by a University Research Grant and Biomedical Research Support Funds for the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Abramson, P.R., Perry, L.B., Seeley, T.T. et al. Thermographic measurement of sexual arousal: A discriminant validity analysis. Arch Sex Behav 10, 171–176 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01542177
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