Jaro PekalUniversity of Duisburg-Essen | uni-due · Abteilung Informatik und Angewandte Kognitionswissenschaft
Jaro Pekal
Master of Science
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Vivid and emotionally laden imagery is a symptom across a wide range of psychiatric disorders. Flash-forwards describe the mental simulation of anticipated future events which might also be relevant in the context of gaming disorder. The aim of this laboratory study was to investigate flash-forwards and the experience of desires and craving in game...
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Several authors consider Internet-pornography-use disorder (IPD) as addictive disorder. One of the mechanisms that has been intensively studied in substance- and non-substance-use disorders is an enhanced attentional bias toward addiction-related cues. Attentional biases are described as cognitive processes of individual's per...
When weighing up short- and long-term consequences, two cognitive systems are assumed to be involved in decision making. The impulsive system processes short-term consequences while the reflective system processes information about long-term prospects. For example, in security-related situations, the costs of preventive actions are directly experie...
Cybersex addiction (CA) has been mostly investigated in heterosexual males. Recent findings have demonstrated an association between CA severity and indicators of sexual excitability, and that coping by sexual behaviors mediated the relationship between sexual excitability and CA symptoms. The aim of this study was to test this mediation in a sampl...
Einleitung: Internetsexsucht wird als eine spezifische Form der Internetsucht betrachtet (Brand et al., 2014) und es werden ahnliche Mechanismen wie bei Substanzabhangigkeiten und Verhaltenssuchten angenommen. Ein Modell zu den Mechanismen der Entstehung und Aufrechterhaltung von Internetsexsucht (Laier et al., 2014) schlagt vor, dass wiederholtes...
Recent studies show similarities between cybersex addiction and substance dependencies and argue to classify cybersex addiction as a behavioral addiction. In substance dependency, implicit associations are known to play a crucial role, and such implicit associations have not been studied in cybersex addiction, so far. In this experimental study, 12...
Abstract In the context of Internet addiction, cybersex is considered to be an Internet application in which users are at risk for developing addictive usage behavior. Regarding males, experimental research has shown that indicators of sexual arousal and craving in response to Internet pornographic cues are related to severity of cybersex addiction...
Background and aims: Cybersex addiction is discussed controversially, while empirical evidence is widely missing. With respect to its mechanisms of development and maintenance Brand et al. (2011) assume that reinforcement due to cybersex should lead to the development of cue-reactivity and craving explaining recurrent cybersex use in the face of gr...
Bisherige Studien weisen auf Unterschiede zwischen den Geschlechtern in Bezug auf Nutzung und Bewertung pornographischer Bilder hin (Carroll et al., 2008). Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie ist die Prüfung, ob sich solche Unterschiede auch in Abhängigkeit des Geschlechtsrollenselbstkonzepts finden. Dazu wurden 48 heterosexuelle Versuchspersonen (2...
Bisherige Studien haben gezeigt, dass sexuelle Präferenzen implizit durch Viewing Time (VT) Tasks gemessen werden können (Imhoff et al., 2010). Unklar ist jedoch, ob Betrachtungszeiten sexueller Stimuli auch die Vorliebe für spezifische, nicht-deviante Sexualpraktiken abbilden können. Dazu sollten bislang 70 Personen (30 Männer) sexuelle Stimuli (z...
Internetpornographische Seiten stellen Nutzern eine Fülle von expliziten Inhalten zur Verfügung, die teilweise exzessiv genutzt werden. Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist der Zusammenhang zwischen der subjektiven Erregung während der Betrachtung pornographischen Materials und der Selbstauskunft bezüglich des internetpornographischen Nutzungsver...