TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Sexual attentional bias in young adult heterosexual men: attention allocation following self-regulation
JO  - Archives of sexual behavior
A1  - Nolet, Kevin
A1  - Emond, Fannie Carrier
A1  - Pfaus, James G.
A1  - Gagnon, Jean
A1  - Rouleau, Joanne-Lucine
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Being sexually aroused can lead to a stronger propensity to engage in sexual risk-taking and sexually coercive behaviors possibly by narrowing attentional focus toward immediate gratification rather than long-term consequences. The goal of this paper was to investigate the attentional processes implicated in sexual self-regulation failure and its moderating factors, namely having a stronger sensitivity to sexual cues (dual control model) or being less able to implement behavioral intentions (action control theory) following a first effortful task. A total of 82 young adult heterosexual men completed a Dot Probe task to assess their attentional bias toward sexual stimuli. Effortful control was manipulated using a Stroop task. Regardless of conditions, higher sexual excitability was predictive of a stronger attentional bias toward sexual cues, while higher inhibition due to threat of performance failure was predictive of a lower bias for such cues. In the experimental condition, action-oriented individuals were able to negate this attentional bias by staying more focused on the task, while state-oriented participants showed higher orientation toward the sexual cues and thus a higher bias. These results suggest that both higher-order processes, like intention implementation, and lower-order processes, like sexual inhibition and excitation systems, are the key to regulation failure.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0004-0002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-01928-7
ID  - ref1
ER  -