Sheen Jade, Koukounas Eric
School of Psychology, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia.
J Sex Res. 2009 Jul-Aug;46(4):358-65. doi: 10.1080/00224490902775843.
This study examined the effect of absorption on women's emotional and cognitive processing of erotic film. Absorption was experimentally manipulated using 2 different sets of test session instructions. The first, participant-oriented, instruction set directed participants to absorb themselves in the erotic film presentation, imagining that they were active participants in the sexual activities depicted. The second, spectator-oriented, instruction set directed participants to observe and assess the erotic film excerpt as impartial spectators. The participant-oriented instruction set was found to elicit greater subjective absorption in women than the spectator-oriented instruction set, and women reported greater subjective sexual arousal in the former set compared with the latter. Thus, it appears that the degree to which a woman becomes absorbed in an erotic stimulus may affect her subsequent subjective sexual arousal. Also, women reported greater degrees of positive affect when they took a participant-oriented perspective than when they viewed the erotic materials as impartial spectators. Thus, participants who were highly absorbed in the erotic film excerpt were more likely to view the stimulus favorably. By contrast, the degree to which women became absorbed in the stimulus had no effect on their reported negative affect. Future directions for examining female response patterns are suggested.
本研究考察了沉浸程度对女性在观看情色影片时情绪及认知加工的影响。通过两组不同的测试环节指导语对沉浸程度进行了实验操控。第一组以参与者为导向的指导语，引导参与者全身心投入情色影片展示中，想象自己是所描绘性行为的积极参与者。第二组以旁观者为导向的指导语，引导参与者以公正旁观者的身份观察和评估情色影片片段。结果发现，以参与者为导向的指导语比以旁观者为导向的指导语能使女性产生更强的主观沉浸感，并且与后者相比，女性在前一组指导语下报告的主观性唤起更强。因此，女性对情色刺激的沉浸程度似乎会影响其随后的主观性感唤起。此外，与以公正旁观者身份观看情色材料相比，当女性采取以参与者为导向的视角时，她们报告的积极情绪程度更高。因此，高度沉浸于情色影片片段的参与者更有可能对刺激产生好感。相比之下，女性对刺激的沉浸程度对其报告的消极情绪没有影响。文中还提出了未来研究女性反应模式的方向。
