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Genital and subjective sexual arousal in response to sexual imagery was studied. In a previous study subjects who were encouraged to process information on sexual stimuli and sexual responses were more sexually aroused than subjects encouraged to process information on sexual stimuli only. In the present study, the reverse effect was found in subjects who had received further verbal training to differentially process information on sexual stimuli or responses. This suggests two different kinds of processing information on sexual responses. They may result from simple encouragement or verbal training to process sexual information.
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This research was supported by a grant from PSYCHON/Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (ZWO 56-205). This study was carried out at the Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. The views contained in this article are those of the authors and should not be construed as reflecting the views of any of the institutions mentioned above.
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Dekker, J., Everaerd, W. A study suggesting two kinds of information processing of the sexual response. Arch Sex Behav 18, 435–447 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01541974
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