caa a22 4500 477117708 CHVBK 20180405111627.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02437581 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02437581 Sexual content induced delays in unprimed lexical decisions: Gender and context effects [Elektronische Daten] [James Geer, Heidi Bellard] Two experiments are reported in which subjects made unprimed lexical decisions where the targets included sexual, romantic, and neutral words. Predicted gender differences in lexical decision times are found. Women delayed their lexical decisions when the target was sexual and the delay was present, but reduced, when the target word was romantic. For men these delays while in the same direction, were smaller and failed to attain statistical significance. Data were collected on the several characteristics of the target words. We found that word familiarity influenced decision time but could not account for the word content induced delay. Similarly, neither word emotionality nor word acceptability accounted for the delay. Finding a strong effect of sexual word content for women in unprimed lexical decisions makes it clear that the effect is present at very basic levels of information processing. This suggests that it is a pervasive characteristic of the responding to sexual stimuli that occurs throughout much of cognitive activity. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 lexical decisions nationallicence information processing nationallicence gender differences nationallicence Geer James Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, 70803, Baton Rouge, Louisiana aut Bellard Heidi Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, 70803, Baton Rouge, Louisiana aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 25/4(1996-08-01), 379-395 0004-0002 25:4<379 1996 25 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02437581 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02437581 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Geer James Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, 70803, Baton Rouge, Louisiana aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bellard Heidi Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, 70803, Baton Rouge, Louisiana aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 25/4(1996-08-01), 379-395 0004-0002 25:4<379 1996 25 10508 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer