التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Increased pupil and heart‐rate responses to sexual stimuli in men after physical exertion. |
| المؤلفون: |
Finke, Johannes B., Hahn, Sebastian, Schächinger, Hartmut, Klucken, Tim |
| المصدر: |
Psychophysiology; Jul2023, Vol. 60 Issue 7, p1-16, 16p, 4 Charts, 3 Graphs |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
PUPILLOMETRY, GALVANIC skin response, SYMPATHETIC nervous system, PUPILLARY reflex, STARTLE reaction, EMOTIONAL conditioning, HEART beat, STIMULUS & response (Psychology), LUST |
| مستخلص: |
Physical stress has been found to enhance arousability by visual sexual stimuli on a short‐term basis, as reflected in higher phasic pupil dilation responses, probably mediated by sympathetic nervous system (SNS)‐related processes. However, previous research has not addressed the specificity of this effect in terms of emotional valence, that is, whether it reflects an instance of general excitation transfer or a more specific mechanism. Thus, to further investigate changes in sexual processing after acute stress exposure, 40 male participants underwent either a predominantly sympathetic stressor (3 min sustained handgrip) or similar control procedure. After stress induction, pictures varying in valence as well as sexual versus non‐sexual arousal were presented (for 5000 ms each). Using principal component analysis, pupillary responses during picture viewing were dissociated into fast and slow components (early vs. late response phases). In addition, startle eyeblink responses were elicited by bursts of white noise (50 ms, 105 dB) in half of the trials and recorded at the orbicularis oculi via electromyography. Skin conductance and heart rate were co‐registered, as well. While affective startle modulation and skin conductance responses to emotional stimuli were unaffected by previous stress exposure, both evoked heart‐rate deceleration (but not acceleration) and pupil responses were specifically enhanced with sexually arousing stimuli in stressed participants, and this effect was mediated by blood pressure reactivity as an index of preceding SNS activation. Taken together, our findings provide strong evidence for enhancement of sexual processing by acute stress exposure in men and suggest differential involvement of parasympathetic versus sympathetic mechanisms. Abstract While long‐term stress exposure has been linked to impaired sexual function, animal models of effects of acute stress on sexual arousability have yielded heterogeneous results, and human research is scarce. The present study replicates and extends evidence for increased physiological responsivity to erotic cues after sympathetic nervous system activation (in men), revealing differential involvement of parasympathetic versus sympathetic mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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