Despite the frequent need to down-regulate sexual desire, existing studies are scarce, and
focus on strategies that involve disengagement from processing sexual stimuli. Accordingly�…

Emotion regulation research has shown successful altering of unwanted aversive emotional
reactions. Cognitive strategies can also regulate expectations of reward arising from�…

Men have been shown to estimate their likelihood of engaging in sexually coercive
behaviors and also uncommon and unprotected sexual behaviors as higher when they are�…

The goals of this study were to examine the effectiveness of emotional reappraisal in
regulating male sexual arousal and to investigate a set of variables theoretically linked to�…

Introduction Emotion regulation research has shown successful altering of unwanted
aversive emotional reactions. Cognitive strategies can also downregulate expectations of�…

In our society men are considered more impulsive than women, especially in the violent and
sexual domain. This correlation of sex and impulsivity might trace back to enhanced male�…

Background Declining sexual desire over the course of a relationship may cause distress.
Because sexual desire partly depends on who the (imagined) sexual partner is, this study�…

Introduction Extinction involves an inhibitory form of new learning that is highly dependent
on the context for expression. This is supported by phenomena such as renewal and�…

Background As outlined by the dual control model (DCM), individual differences in the
regulation of sexual arousal following sexual stimulation depend on two distinct�…

Introduction Knowledge about the regulation of sexual emotion may add to the
understanding of sexual problems such as diminished sexual desire and hypersexuality�…