Fantasy, sexual desire and self-regulation in virtual reality

Diplôme Master Fantasy, sexual desire and self-regulation in virtual reality eng 2018 author Chaddad Esraa 830925 director Rudrauf David 850236 This study examines the link between the quality of sexual fantasy and self-regulation of women's sexual desire in a virtual reality environment. Fantasy has been shown to be an effective method for upregulating sexual desire in women. However, much attention has been given to the content of sexual fantasy without evaluating the quality of those fantasies. We evaluated the quality of mental imagery of 26 women and measured their sexual desire and physiological arousal in the laboratory. We did this within a virtual reality environment to enhance feelings of immersion and provide a setting for women to freely fantasize. Despite being able to successfully induce feelings of desire and arousal in our participants, there was no significant effect of quality of mental imagery on sexual desire and arousal. However, our experimental paradigm showed promise as an effective way to immerse participants in their imagination and allow experimenters to collect physiological and behavioral data about sexuality in the laboratory. Dewey 150 Maîtrise universitaire en psychologie 108 Section de psychologie 71 false ace99fba-c003-42f1-be3c-2c945dd1e162 Master thesis Private CHADDAD_Esraa_MA_septembre2018.pdf 1037984 application/pdf closedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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