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. 1998 Spring;21(1):37–52. doi: 10.1007/BF03392779

The experimental analysis of human sexual arousal: Some recent developments

Bryan Roche, Dermot Barnes
PMCID: PMC2731388  PMID: 22478296

Abstract

Experimental analyses of human sexual arousal have been decidedly sparse. Recent developments in the analysis of derived relational responding, however, have opened the way for a modern behavior-analytic treatment of complex or “novel” human behavior, including specific instances of human sexual arousal. The current article examines some of these developments and their relevance to the analysis of emotional behavior, with a focus on sexual arousal. Recent research that has examined the acquisition of sexual stimulus functions within a relational frame paradigm is then outlined. Finally, a series of relational frame interpretations of a variety of human sexual arousal phenomena is offered.

Keywords: human sexuality, sexual arousal, relational frame theory, stimulus equivalence, derived transfer, respondent, operant

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