Meredith L Chivers

Summary

Affiliation: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi A sex difference in the specificity of sexual arousal
    Meredith L Chivers
    Psychol Sci 15:736-44. 2004
  2. ncbi A sex difference in features that elicit genital response
    Meredith L Chivers
    Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College St, Toronto, Ont, Canada M5T 1R8
    Biol Psychol 70:115-20. 2005
  3. ncbi Gender and sexual orientation differences in sexual response to sexual activities versus gender of actors in sexual films
    Meredith L Chivers
    Law and Mental Health Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H4, Canada
    J Pers Soc Psychol 93:1108-21. 2007
  4. ncbi A critical review of recent biological research on human sexual orientation
    Brian S Mustanski
    Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA
    Annu Rev Sex Res 13:89-140. 2002
  5. ncbi Measurement of sexual arousal in postoperative male-to-female transsexuals using vaginal photoplethysmography
    Anne A Lawrence
    Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
    Arch Sex Behav 34:135-45. 2005
  6. ncbi Sexual arousal patterns of bisexual men
    Gerulf Rieger
    Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
    Psychol Sci 16:579-84. 2005
  7. ncbi Psychophysiological and subjective sexual arousal to visual sexual stimuli in new women
    Meredith L Chivers
    J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 27:125; author reply 125-6. 2006
  8. ncbi Normal and persistent genital arousal in women: new perspectives
    Sandra R Leiblum
    Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
    J Sex Marital Ther 33:357-73. 2007

Detail Information

Publications8

  1. ncbi A sex difference in the specificity of sexual arousal
    Meredith L Chivers
    Psychol Sci 15:736-44. 2004
    ..In a second study, we showed that our results for females are unlikely to be explained by ascertainment biases. These findings suggest that sexual arousal patterns play fundamentally different roles in male and female sexuality...
  2. ncbi A sex difference in features that elicit genital response
    Meredith L Chivers
    Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College St, Toronto, Ont, Canada M5T 1R8
    Biol Psychol 70:115-20. 2005
    ..These results suggest that stimulus features necessary to evoke genital arousal are much less specific in women than in men...
  3. ncbi Gender and sexual orientation differences in sexual response to sexual activities versus gender of actors in sexual films
    Meredith L Chivers
    Law and Mental Health Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H4, Canada
    J Pers Soc Psychol 93:1108-21. 2007
    ..An unexpected result was that homosexual women responded more to nude female targets exercising and masturbating than to nude male targets, whereas heterosexual women responded about the same to both sexes at each activity level...
  4. ncbi A critical review of recent biological research on human sexual orientation
    Brian S Mustanski
    Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA
    Annu Rev Sex Res 13:89-140. 2002
    ..We conclude with an examination of the limitations of biological research on sexual orientation, including measurement issues (paper and pencil, cognitive, and psychophysiological), and lack of research on women...
  5. ncbi Measurement of sexual arousal in postoperative male-to-female transsexuals using vaginal photoplethysmography
    Anne A Lawrence
    Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
    Arch Sex Behav 34:135-45. 2005
    ....
  6. ncbi Sexual arousal patterns of bisexual men
    Gerulf Rieger
    Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
    Psychol Sci 16:579-84. 2005
    ..In contrast, their subjective sexual arousal did conform to a bisexual pattern. Male bisexuality appears primarily to represent a style of interpreting or reporting sexual arousal rather than a distinct pattern of genital sexual arousal...
  7. ncbi Psychophysiological and subjective sexual arousal to visual sexual stimuli in new women
    Meredith L Chivers
    J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 27:125; author reply 125-6. 2006
  8. ncbi Normal and persistent genital arousal in women: new perspectives
    Sandra R Leiblum
    Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
    J Sex Marital Ther 33:357-73. 2007
    ..However, a full understanding of the range and variation in women's sexual experience remains to be elucidated...