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| | Timmons & Hamilton: Drugs, Brains and Behavior -- Ch 1 |
 | | Another example can be seen in the case of sexual hormones preparing the seasonal breeder for a whole series of behaviors that occur only during autumn. | | | Behavioral Pharmacology is the analysis of the effects of drugs on behavior (usually of animals), with particular emphasis on the development and classification of drugs. | | | Psychopharmacology is the study of the effects of drugs on behavior (usually of humans), with particular emphasis on changes in mood, emotions, and psychomotor abilities. |
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http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lwh/drugs/chap01.htm
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| | Human Behavior & Evolution Society |
| | The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) is an interdisciplinary, international society of researchers, primarily from the social and biological sciences, who use modern evolutionary theory to help to discover human nature - including evolved emotional, cognitive and sexual adaptations. | | | Journal of Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior. | | | Note: If you are new to adaptationist approaches to human behavior, learn more at our Intro to the Field page. |
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http://www.hbes.com
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| | The Psychopharmacology of Sexual Behavior |
| | These procedures allow appetitive, or incentive motivational, components of sexual behavior to be studied independently of the ability to copulate and thereby represent a useful development in dissecting the neurochemical basis of sexual motivation and performance (19) (see also Behavioral Techniques in Preclinical Neuropsychopharmacology Research and Animal Models of Psychiatric Disorders). | | | The effects of neuropeptides on sexual behavior are difficult in most cases to relate to hypothalamic or related limbic mechanisms underlying sexual behavior. | | | Dopamine transmission increased comparably in both regions during sexual behavior, although the effect in the nucleus accumbens seemed to be related to the incentive quality of the stimulus male, whereas the effect in the striatum seemed to be related to the ability of the female to pace the copulatory contact (50). |
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| | Sexual socialization, sexual convenience, machismo, homophobia, heterosexual behavior, homosexual behavior, bisexual behavior, sexual coercion, and perceived self-efficacy in HIV-preventive and AIDS-preventive behavior are examined. | | | A major theme that emerges from the qualitative analysis is that sexual risk behavior in Latino gay/bisexual men is not a matter of "deficits" in knowledge, motivation or skills; it is behavior that has meaning and logic from a given sociocultural context. | | | Discusses sexual behavior among Latin Americans living in the US and the effects of acculturation on knowledge of and attitudes towards HIV and AIDS. |
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http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/hispanicbib.html
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| | Tag: sexual intercourse |
| | Sexuality refers to sexual behavior, and the thoughts and feelings the person has in relation to that behavior. | | | Sexual behavior is behavior that produces sexual arousal and increases the chance of orgasm (Hyde and DeLamater 2003). | | | Description Under normal circumstances, when a man is sexually stimulated, his brain sends a message down the spinal cord and into the nerves of the penis. |
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http://tags.families.com/sexual-intercourse
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| | Sexual attraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Because human social behavior is often highly complex, a sexual relationship may entail one which, at its beginning, has little or no sexual behavior, and only after a period of time, which can be a courtship period, or a threshold such as marriage, does sexual activity enter the interaction patterns. | | | The concrete meaning of a sexual relationship differs across cultures and history. | | | Sexual attraction, in species which reproduce sexually, is attraction to other members of the same species for sexual or erotic activity. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_attraction
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| | Sexual assault |
| | Coercion exists when a sexual initiator engages in sexually pressuring and/or oppressive behavior that violates norms of respect in the community, such that the application of such pressure or oppression causes the object of the behavior to engage in unwanted sexual behavior. | | | Students are strongly encouraged to talk with each other before engaging in sexual behavior, and to communicate as clearly and verbally as possible with each other. | | | The procedures outlined below describe the options to be considered in case of a sexual assault, with particular attention given to describing the roles of the deans, counselors, and community safety officers when the assault is on a student. |
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http://web.reed.edu/academic/gbook/comm_pol/sexual_assault.html
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| | A ROLE FOR OVARIAN HORMONES IN |
| | Breedlove, S.M. (1992) Sexual differentiation of the brain and behavior. | | | Lisk, R.D. and Suydam, A.J. (1967) Sexual behavior patterns in the prepubertally castrate rat. | | | Historically, studies of the role of endogenous hormones in developmental differentiation of the sexes have suggested that mammalian sexual differentiation is primarily mediated by testicular androgens, and that exposure to androgens in early life leads to a male brain as defined by neuroanatomy and behavior. |
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http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.fitch.html
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| | Interpersonal relationship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Casual relationships, relationships extending beyond one night stands that exclusively consist of sexual behavior, the participants of which may be known as fuck buddies or friends with benefits when limited to considering sexual intercourse or sexual partners in a wider sense. | | | When these relationships are in prohibited degrees, sexual intimacy in them would be the taboo of incest. | | | In sociology there is a hierarchy of forms of activity and interpersonal relations, which divides them into: behavior, action, social behavior, social action, social contact, social interaction and finally social relation. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_relationship
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| | Differential Diagnosis of Addictive Sexual Disorders Using the DSM-IV |
| | The paraphilias are characterized by recurrent, intense sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors that involve unusual objects, activities, or situations that occur over a period of at least six months and cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. | | | Addiction professionals who encounter both compulsive and impulsive sexual acting-out behaviors in their patients have experienced paradigm and nomenclature communication difficulties with mental health professionals and managed care organizations who utilize DSM terminology and diagnostic criteria. | | | In the differential diagnosis of sexual improprieties and excesses, Axis II characterologic disorders and traits are often contributory, or may be considered the primary etiology of paraphilic sexual behavior. |
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http://www.jenniferschneider.com/articles/diagnos.html
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| | Journal of Sex Research: The enigma of sexual desire. - Sexual Appetite, Desire and Motivation: Energetics of the Sexual System - book review |
| | Herbert suggests that the neural mechanisms for sexual behavior are closely related to those concerned with adaptive responses, but in developing his argument he repeatedly stresses the interaction between the brain, endocrine system, and the social environment. | | | Kim Wallen's chapter, "Social Context and Hormonal Modulation of Primate Sexual Behavior," discusses historical views of human and nonhuman primate sexuality and the influence of hormones on the expression of sexuality, evidence that social context modulates influences on female sexual motivation, and the idea that perceived risk might act as a modulator of sexual behavior. | | | The purpose of the meeting was to "explore contributions from different disciplinary perspectives to questions about the steering of sexual behavior and sexual emotions" (p. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2372/2_39/91475125/p1/article.jhtml
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| | Journal Abstract |
| | Exogenously administered dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is a potent inhibitor of sexual behavior in ovariectomized, estrogen-primed rats and endogenous DHT has been implicated as an inhibitor of sexual behavior in cycling rats. | | | To determine the temporal relationship between DHT levels and the expression of sexual behavior, females were tested at midnight of each day of the 4-day estrous cycle for lordosis response to male mounts and subsequently bled. | | | Plasma levels of dihydrotestosterone in the cycling rat: implications for the regulation of lordosis behavior. |
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http://www.trincoll.edu/~kdunlap/abstracts/plasma.htm
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| | OutProud - Adolescence, Sexual Orientation & Identity |
| | Sexuality researcher Alfred C. Kinsey and his colleagues devised a seven-point scale to chart the full spectrum of human sexual behavior, with "0" representing those whose histories are exclusively heterosexual, and "6" for those who are exclusively homosexual in behavior. | | | Sexual Behavior: This is what we do sexually and with whom. | | | As the person tells others of her or his emerging sexual identity, parents, other family members, and peers often enter a "coming-to-terms" process of their own. |
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http://www.outproud.org/article_sexual_identity.html
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| | UBEP 2000 Seventh Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium |
| | We hypothesized that there is a correlation between the degree of sexual dimorphism of behavior and the degree of sexual dimorphism in the corresponding brain regions. | | | Often, sexual dimorphism in areas of the brain that mediate male and female sexual behavior accompany, and may even contribute to, these behavioral differences. | | | This comparison could further explore the correlation between the degree of sexual dimorphism in amygdala volume and the degree of sexual dimorphism in aggressive behavior. |
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http://lsvl.la.asu.edu/ubep2000/abstracts/abst17
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| | Normal Sexual Behavior of Children |
| | Sexual behavior — a natural part of life — shouldn't be a subject of embarrassment or taboo for parents or children. | | | Within reason, most sexual behaviors in your young child — touching his or her genitals, flashing underwear in public, "playing doctor" — are perfectly normal and shouldn't cause you alarm or undue embarrassment. | | | In fact, it isn't uncommon for a 5-year-old to fondle his or her genitals or for any child to mimic an adult's sexual behavior, such as passionately kissing a playmate. |
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http://cecp.air.org/_discjebp1/00000053.htm
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| | Disclosure of Extramarital Sexual Activities |
| | Disclosure: A formal or informal process in which the person with the compulsive sexual disorder tells his or her partner about all or some of the sexual behaviors in which he or she engaged in outside the marital relationship. | | | Addictive or compulsive sexual disorder: Sexual behavior that is compulsive, continues despite significant adverse consequences to the person & is associated with obsession or preoccupation with the behavior. | | | The spouses of sexually exploitative professionals are in particular need of counseling, as they have to deal with additional issues related to their community standing & expectations that they will support the professional publicly & hold the family together. |
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http://www.open-mind.org/News/SLA/3.htm
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| | Sexual identity is far from fixed in women who aren't exclusively heterosexual |
| | Sexual identity, attraction and behavior are certainly related, but they're often "discordant" for women, says Diamond, whose study appears in this month's issue of Developmental Psychology (Vol. | | | Two years later, she interviewed them again to see if their sexual attractions, behaviors and identities had changed. | | | In the study, the women's sexual behavior was also somewhat variable--many reported having sexual relations with men and women--although their pattern of attraction to other women or men tended to remain stable over time. |
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http://www.apa.org/monitor/mar00/sexualid.html
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| | SOIS |
| | Sexual behavior refers to any behavior that a person might engage in that is sexual in nature (e.g., from specific forms of touching to kissing to masturbation to sexual intercourse). | | | Sexual arousal refers to the onset and heightening of physical sensations and uncontrollable bodily responses (often accompanied by sexual thoughts and feelings) of a sexual nature from a previously inactive state. | | | Sexual attraction refers to intense and recurring sexual feelings or thoughts reflecting sexual interest in another person(s). |
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http://www.coe.missouri.edu/~RLW-PhD/SOIS.htm
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Sexual perversions |
| | A paraphilia is a condition in which a person's sexual arousal and gratification depend on a fantasy theme of an unusual situation or object that becomes the principal focus of sexual behavior. | | | Desensitization procedures neutralize the anxiety-provoking aspects of nonparaphilic sexual situations and behavior by a process of gradual exposure. | | | Psychoanalysts generally theorize that these conditions represent a regression to or a fixation at an earlier level of psychosexual development resulting in a repetitive pattern of sexual behavior that is not mature in its application and expression. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2601/is_0012/ai_2601001243
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| | Sexual Attraction to Clients - The Human Therapist and the (Sometimes) Inhuman Training System |
| | Sexually intimate behavior between therapists and their clients has emerged as an increasingly serious problem within the profession, as revealed by an examination of the records in three arenas—ethics cases, malpractice suits, and licensing board hearings. | | | Even though sexual attraction for some psychologists remained unspoken to colleagues and clients, it nevertheless could find expression in the fantasy life and sexual behavior (not involving the client) of a minority of the profession. | | | Even if sexual attraction to clients is not viewed as a therapeutic offense, the acknowledgment of the attraction—as in the case of Searles (1959/1965) mentioned in the introduction—is often associated with feelings of vulnerability and trepidation. |
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http://kspope.com/sexiss/research5.php
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| | Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms |
| | Aggression - Attitude to Death - Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms - Behavioral Symptoms - Codependency (Psychology)- Self-Injurious Behavior - Sexual Behavior - Social Behavior - | | | About Cognitive Behavioral Therapy- CBT Web Site | | | On Aggressive behavior in children - Encyclopedia of Children's Health |
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http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/F01.html
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| | Bonobo Sex and Society |
| | For these animals, sexual behavior is indistinguishable from social behavior. | | | Based on an analysis of many such incidents, my study yielded the first solid evidence for sexual behavior as a mechanism to overcome aggression. | | | The first suggestion that the sexual behavior of bonobos is different had come from observations at European zoos. |
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| | African Sexual Culture |
| | Sexuality; the quality or state of being sexual, or and identification with behaviors and norms distinct to a particular biological sex, is a socially and culturally constructed phenomenon. | | | Sexual culture, distinct from the individual expression of one's sexuality, is an amalgam of societies beliefs, values and understandings pertaining to sex and is therefore a generalized or idealized expression of that cultures sexual behavior. | | | The modification of sexual behaviors conducive to HIV susceptibility, first require an understanding of the sociocultural forces which influence the practice of those behaviors in general. |
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http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~tonyat/SexualCulture.html
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| | Female Sexual Behavior |
| | These sorts of behaviors were somehow missed in most literature on sexual behavior in animals prior to the 1970s. | | | The post oluvatory decrease in sexual behavior may be an indication that estrogen increases sexual desire and progesterone decreases it. | | | One possible reason for her behavior is that it's not good for the female to invest all her energy in having the offspring when the new male will probably kill them. |
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http://soma.npa.uiuc.edu/labs/greenough/statements/rswain/hormones/022196.html
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| | Sexual dysfunction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Images of sexuality presented by society and the media often present people with unrealistic ideals of sexual behavior, whether of the ideals of chastity and sexual fidelity presented by religion, or the ideal of sexual inexhaustibility and promiscuous availability presented by pornography. | | | Sexual problems were merely symptoms of a deeper malaise and the diagnostic approach was from the psychopathological. | | | Sexual dysfunction or sexual malfunction is difficulty during any stage of the sexual act (which includes desire, arousal, orgasm, and resolution) that prevents the individual or couple from enjoying sexual activity. |
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| | SASH Addicts/Seekers |
| | Problematic sexual behavior does not necessarily mean that you are a sex addict. | | | There is no single type of behavior or even amount of behavior that will indicate you are a sexual addict. | | | There are many other conditions and problems which can cause sexual behavior to get out of control. |
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| | Challenging Behaviors from Alzheimer's Outreach |
| | Although she could understand intellectually that her father's sexual behavior was harmless and not intentionally directed at her, she was emotionally unable to overcome her feelings of disgust. | | | When the older person still has the privacy of his own home or the home of a relative, the inappropriate sexual behavior need be understood only by the few persons who are responsible for his care. | | | If sexual behavior occurs outside of home, the person who is supervising should remove the impaired older person from the embarrassing situation and, if then time, explain that the behavior is caused by mental impairment. |
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| | Options for managing significant sexual attraction between stepsiblings - p. 1 of 2 |
| | One aspect of this is that the odds of sexual tension or behavior between cohabiting or visiting stepsiblings is significantly higher than between typical genetic sisters and brothers. | | | Therefore, their sexual behavior is not immoral (inherently wrong). | | | This may indicate that sexual behavior between stepsiblings is rare (at least in northern Illinois), or that typical co-parents don't want to admit or discuss it. |
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http://sfhelp.org/Rx/sibs/lust.htm
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