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Do Beliefs About Sexual Orientation Predict Sexual Identity Labeling Among Sexual Minorities?
Research has found that sexual orientation beliefs predict heterosexuals’ attitudes toward sexual minorities, and important sexual identity outcomes...
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The Nonverbal Communication of Sexual Orientation
Chapter 3 covers the nonverbal cues (appearance and behaviors) associated with people’s non-clinical sexual... -
Attitudes toward sexual behaviors: relationship with gender and sexual orientation
Most studies that have compared sexual attitudes between men and women have focused on heterosexual individuals or have not controlled for sexual...
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Measuring Shame Related to Sexual Orientation: Validation of Sexual Minority—External and Internal Shame Scale (SM-EISS)
IntroductionShame is a self-conscious emotion involving negative self-evaluations, being a transdiagnostic factor for psychopathology. Due to stigma...
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Sexual orientation in transgender adults in the United States
BackgroundSexual orientation refers to a person’s enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attractions to other people. Sexual orientation measures do...
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Organizational Effects of Gonadal Hormones on Human Sexual Orientation
PurposeSexual attraction to males or females is perhaps the largest behavioral sex difference across animal species. Experiments in laboratory...
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Evaluating the Subjective Orgasm Experience Through Sexual Context, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
The subjective orgasm experience (SOE) is the psychological perception of orgasm sensations and closely related to sexual health. Here, SOE was...
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The Moderating Role of Sexual Orientation in the Association Between Religiosity and Sexual Behaviors Among College Students
Past research has shown that religiosity can impact sexual behaviors of college-aged youth in both positive and negative directions. As many world...
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Neuroticism and Sexual Orientation-Based Victimization as Mediators of Sexual Orientation Disparities in Mental Health
This study tested whether elevated risk of poorer mental health outcomes among nonheterosexual adolescents compared with heterosexual adolescents is...
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Sexual Orientation, Homophobic Attitudes, and Self-Perceived Pornography Addiction
IntroductionThe impacts of the World Health Organization’s new compulsive sexual behaviour disorder diagnosis on sexual minority populations are...
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Are romantic orientation and sexual orientation different? Comparisons using explicit and implicit measurements
Recent research has characterized romantic love as overlapping with but distinct from sexual desire. We explore whether romantic orientation—the...
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The Association of Self-Esteem and Sensation Seeking with Sociosexual Orientation and Sexual Risk-Taking
People tend to differ in sociosexual orientation (i.e., attitudes, behaviors, and desires about casual sexual relationships) and the inclination to...
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How Does Sexual Subjectivity Vary on the Basis of Gender and Sexual Orientation? Validation of the Short Sexual Subjectivity Inventory (SSSI-11) in Cisgender, Heterosexual and Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents
Through sexual exploration, adolescents learn that they are sexual beings with choices, desires, and are deserving of pleasure, which corresponds to...
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Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Asylum: R. Lewis
The process of seeking asylum for persecution on the basis of one’s sexual orientation or gender identity; the challenges to political asylum claims... -
Pornography, sexual orientation and ambivalent sexism in young adults in Spain
BackgroundOn line platforms offer access to an almost unlimited variety of pornographic material that shows high levels of sexism. Despite this fact,...
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Smoking at the Intersections of Race/Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation
Research has tended to document smoking disparities separately by race/ethnicity and sexual orientation, with relatively less work examining the...
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The association between sexual orientation and psychotic like experiences during adolescence: a prospective cohort study
PurposePsychotic like experiences (PLEs) are relatively common during adolescence and associated with a range of negative outcomes. There is evidence...
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The Influence of Prototypical #MeToo Features on the Perception of Workplace Sexual Harassment Across Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation (LGBTQ +)
IntroductionHow we perceive social-sexual behavior, and to what extent we consider such behavior to be sexual harassment, is dependent on several...
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Sexual Orientation Labels Used by Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents and Young Adults Seeking Gender Affirming Hormones
Not enough is known about the labels that transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals – and especially adolescents and young adults – use to...