News tagged with sexual psychology


Does sex sell? New study shows how to make women respond to sexy ads

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Do sexy images sell products? It depends, says a new study in Journal of Consumer Research. If marketers are determined to use sex in advertising, there may be ways to do it that can attract customers of both sexes.





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Don't advertise during sexy programmes - the viewer won't remember

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 21, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

People are less able to recall the brand of products advertised during programmes with a lot of sexual content, than if the advert is placed in similar programme that has no sexual content.


Women's brains recognize, encode smell of male sexual sweat

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

A new Rice University study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that socioemotional meanings, including sexual ones, are conveyed in human sweat.


Study reveals complexities of female arousal

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Challenging the idea that women's sexual motivations are tied exclusively to romantic emotions or reproduction, a new study by psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin found women's sexual decisions ...


Sexual behavior at work still a problem, study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Be careful of that raunchy joke that gets all the laughs. As funny as folks at work may find it, it's probably hurting morale.


New measure of sexual arousal found for both men and women

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 23, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

According to a new study published in the latest issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine and conducted in the Department of Psychology of McGill University, thermography shows great promise as a diagnostic method of measur ...


Fathers respond to teens' risky sexual behavior with increased supervision

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Two-thirds of American teenagers have sex by the time they're 18. A new longitudinal study finds that when adolescents engage in risky sexual activity, fathers respond by increasing their efforts to supervise and monitor ...


Employees who are sexually harassed experience less job satisfaction and lower job performance

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

A new study in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly examined the effects of workplace sexual harassment and found that employees who were harassed report lower levels of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and ...


Good sexual intercourse lasts minutes, not hours, therapists say

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 31, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (75) | comments 3

Satisfactory sexual intercourse for couples lasts from 3 to 13 minutes, contrary to popular fantasy about the need for hours of sexual activity, according to a survey of U.S. and Canadian sex therapists.


Both boys and girls negatively affected by sexual harassment

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 12, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new study in Psychology of Women Quarterly explored the outcomes of sexual harassment on both boys and girls. While girls were harassed more frequently, boys were indirectly yet negatively affected through a school climat ...


Sexual harassment from males prevents female bonding, says study

Sexual harassment from males prevents female bonding, says study

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The extent to which sexual harassment from males can damage relationships between females is revealed in a new study. Led by the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of ...



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