caa a22 4500 606231102 CHVBK 20210128101218.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0419-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0419-7 Dewitte Marieke Department of Experimental, Clinical, and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium aut Gender Differences in Liking and Wanting Sex: Examining the Role of Motivational Context and Implicit Versus Explicit Processing [Elektronische Daten] [Marieke Dewitte] The present study investigated the specificity of sexual appraisal processes by making a distinction between implicit and explicit appraisals and between the affective (liking) and motivational (wanting) valence of sexual stimuli. These appraisals are assumed to diverge between men and women, depending on the context in which the sexual stimulus is encountered. Using an Implicit Association Test, explicit ratings, and film clips to prime a sexual, romantic or neutral motivational context, we investigated whether liking and wanting of sexual stimuli differed at the implicit and explicit level, differed between men and women, and were differentially sensitive to context manipulations. Results showed that, at the implicit level, women wanted more sex after being primed with romantic mood whereas men showed the least wanting of sex in the romantic condition. At the explicit level, men reported greater liking and wanting of sex than women, independently of context. We also found that women's (self-reported) sexual behavior was best predicted by the incentive salience of sexual stimuli whereas men's sexual behavior was more closely related to the hedonic qualities of sexual stimuli. Results were discussed in relation to an emotion-motivational account of sexual functioning. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Sexual appraisal nationallicence Information processing nationallicence Gender differences nationallicence Sexual desire nationallicence Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/6(2015-08-01), 1663-1674 0004-0002 44:6<1663 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0419-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0419-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dewitte Marieke Department of Experimental, Clinical, and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/6(2015-08-01), 1663-1674 0004-0002 44:6<1663 2015 44 10508