Levels Of Pleasure Research Articles

Relationships among pleasure, anxiety and physiological response patterns during the sexual sequence in normal and dispermic subjects.

We examined the reported subjective level of pleasure and anxiety usually perceived during the four phases of the sexual sequence by 18 dispermic patients and 18 normal subjects. Relevant differences exist between the two groups in their perception of both emotions. The role of pleasure and anxiety in modulating some reflexive biological responses of the sexual sequence is discussed.

Environmental effects on perceptions of life quality in Korea

Both in industrialized and industrializing countries environment is widely believed to be an important contributing source of the quality which people seek to bring to their lives. Yet, quality of life researchers have made little effort to determine the exact nature of environmental effects on perceptions of quality of life. This paper examines the individual and joint effects of community, housing and household on the levels of satisfaction, dissatisfaction, pleasure, and worry which Korean people experience.

Attitude Change

The relationship between the feelings of pleasure and arousal elicited by an environment and ratings of source credibility and attitude change was explored in a three by two design. Three levels of pleasure and two levels of arousal were combined factorially. 7he results suggest that the emotion-eliciting qualities of the environment can be used to predict both source credibility and attitude change. The results are discussed in relation to other findings in attitude research.

Factors related to sexual behavior in nondysfunctional couples

Abstract Self-report data were obtained from 99 heterosexual, nondysfunctional couples who were either married or living together. The dependent variable was total frequency of occurrence of 17 specific sexual activities. Four a priori hypotheses, reflecting social stereotypes regarding sexual behavior, were operationalized and tested. Of the seven independent variables measured, subjects' own level of enjoyment of sexual activities and their estimates of their partners' level of enjoyment were most highly correlated with behavior. Data for men and women were complementary: for men the best predictor of behavior was their estimate of their partners' level of pleasure; for women it was self-reported pleasure. These findings are interpreted in terms of culturally prescribed roles for lovemaking.

Changes in marital sexual relationship following treatment for sexual dysfunctioning.

Ten couples treated for sexual dysfunctional problems were administered the Sexual Compatibility Test before and after treatment. Significant changes between before-and-after testing were found on all subscales, on the major scales, and on dysfunctional scores. Changes occurred in amount of sexual communication, amount of sexual activity, level of sexual pleasure, and the ability to perceive accurately a mate's sexual preferences and pleasures. The group means of test scores for before-and-after testing were computed and the significance of the differences presented. No significant differences were found for a control group. Group profiles of the treatment group were presented. The impact of the observed changes upon the lives of the treatment couples was discussed.

Responsivity to facial and linguistic cues.

Though information regarding personality and emotional variables are communicated through facial cues, linguistic cues, vocal cues, body position cues, and body movement cues, many individuals are aware of only responding to the linguistic content of others' behavior. Since such a wide variety of cues are available to the expressive individual, contradictory messages will be communicated by most individuals from time to time. The present study investigated the response of judges to incongruent cues. Judges were presented a 46 item test in which they were to rate the affect communicated through an individual's concurrent facial expression and linguistic message. On 32 of these items the face and the words communicated markedly different levels of pleasantness. Groups of 42 and 35 undergraduate students were tested for their tendency to utilize one or the other kind of cue. Data analysis suggested strikingly high reliability in individual's responsivity to facial or linguistic cues (r =.87, .92). Tests of this kind cannot be used to make statements about the general level of the public's responsivity to one kind of cue or another, since the artificial cues can be manipulated to make one or the other cue more or less striking, and the collector of any artificial cues has no way of knowing to what extent his material is representative of communication in the world at large. The reliability of this test, however, allows future research to divide groups into those more or less responsive to facial or linguistic cues.

Effect of preceding and concurrent stimulus conditions on the pleasantness of auditory stimulus sequences

A total of 72 adult male Ss judged the pleasantness of eight auditory stimulus sequences differing in the number and rate of succession of single tone elements within a 10 sec interval (3, 5, 8, 13, 22, 37, 61, 100). The effects of differential preceding stimulation, concurrent stimulation, and succession rate were evaluated by an analysis of variance design. A strong main effect of succession rate was obtained. Supplemental analyses suggested that a slight effect of concurrent stimulation diminished during the relatively long period of the rating procedure. The results argue for a rather stable optimal level of pleasantness for auditory sequences in the range of 3–13 stimuli per 10 sec interval.