Men on the "Pull" Automatic Approach-Avoidance Tendencies and Sexual Interest Behavior

作者：Hofmann Wilhelm^*; Friese Malte; Gschwendner Tobias

来源：Social Psychology, 2009, 40(2): 73-78.

DOI：10.1027/1864-9335.40.2.73

• approach-avoidance
• sexual impulses
• explicit attitudes
• viewing time
• sexual motivation

In the present study, we adapted and validated a measure of automatic approach-avoidance tendencies toward sexual stimuli in a male heterosexual sample (N = 29). As expected, automatic approach-avoidance tendencies, as measured via push and pull reactions in a joystick task, primarily predicted an unobtrusive measure of the time participants viewed erotic slides but not a more deliberate measure of forced-choice between an erotic and an art calendar. Conversely, participants' explicit attitudes primarily predicted the forced-choice measure but not viewing time. Furthermore, automatic approach-avoidance tendencies discriminated reliably between those participants who were and those who were not currently engaged in a romantic relationship.

• 出版日期2009