Donald L Mosher
Biographic Data
| ID | 5142212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald L Mosher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mosher |
| SIGNATURE | MOSHER D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 325 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
College men and women respond to X‐rated videos intended for male or female audiences
To assess psychosexual responses to X‐rated videos intended for male or female audiences, 200 male and 195 female undergraduates were randomly assigned to view one of six videos: three X‐rated videos intended for men and three X‐rated videos designed by and for women. Reactions were assessed on measures of sexual arousal, affective response, absorption, and sexual behavior. As predicted, men reported more positive. psychosexual responses to all X…
Macho Men, Machismo, and Sexuality
(1991). Macho Men, Machismo, and Sexuality. Annual Review of Sex Research: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 199-247
Threat to sexual freedom
Moralistic intolerance threatens sexual freedom. Sex‐negative ideologies, characterized as Normative and Jehovanist, regard sexuality as dirty—producing moral corruption and creating social disorder. The New Right silences its critics by calling them “permissive” or “secular humanists.” Although they flout the rule of reason, unjust sexual laws remain as a heritage of antisexual ideologies. Most Americans favor tolerance of sexual variations and …
Advancing sexual science
If sexual science is to advance, sexual scientists must strategically analyze critical issues and strategically plan their future. Four critical issues must be solved: (a) increasing recognition, (b) developing scientists, (c) securing resources, and (d) reducing sex‐negative bias. The strategy for the overall direction of sexual science is determined by prioritizing strategic areas. The driving force—the principle criterion for planning and deci…
Scripting the macho man
Tomkins' (1979) script theory offers a coherent, heuristic, and elegant account of the macho personality constellation (Mosher & Sirkin, 1984), consisting of: (a) callous sexual attitudes, (b) violence as manly, and (c) danger as exciting. A script is a set of rules for interpreting, directing, defending, and creating the scenes making up the life of the macho man. The macho script organizes childhood scenes in which so‐called “superior, masculin…
Subjective sexual arousal and involvement
Three measures of subjective sexual arousal were observed across four erotic conditions in a sample of 241 college men and women (a) to refine two multi‐item scales of subjective sexual arousal, (b) to determine the convergent and discriminant validity of three measures of sexual arousal, and (c) to relate these operational definitions of subjective sexual arousal to the construct of subjective sexual arousal within Mosher's (1980) involvement th…
Wanted
Balancing the rights of subjects, scientists, and society
(1988). Balancing the rights of subjects, scientists, and society: 10 principles for human subject committees. The Journal of Sex Research: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 378-385
Macho personality, sexual aggression, and reactions to guided imagery of realistic rape
Guided imagery of rape
Two hypotheses were tested which demonstrated that, although women may be sexually aroused and experience positive affects during the guided imagining of an erotic “rape” fantasy, women respond to guided imagery of a realistic rape with negative affects and no sexual arousal. The affective and subjective sexual responses of 104 undergraduate women were assessed as a function of sex guilt and random assignment to conditions: (a) erotic fantasy of …
A causal model of sexual arousal to erotic fantasies
To test a causal model derived from discrete affect (Tomkins, 1962) and involvement (Mosher, 1980) theories, 120 male and 121 female subjects responded to four erotic conditions with self‐reports of discrete affects and subjective sexual arousal. The four erotic conditions were (a) recall of a past heterosexual episode, (b) recall of a past masturbatory episode, (c) free sex fantasy, and (d) guided sex fantasy. The model posits (a) a direct effec…
Contributions of sex guilt and masturbation guilt to women's contraceptive attitudes and use
The purposes of this study were, first, to confirm inverse relationships between sex guilt and contraceptive use and attitudes and, second, to demonstrate that guilt regarding masturbation in comparison to sex guilt was a specific inhibitor of diaphragm use. In a sample of 186 single college women, sex guilt accounted for 28% of the variance in nine measures of contraceptive attitudes, thereby confirming the hypothesized inverse relationship. Use…
Measuring a macho personality constellation
Reply to money's, Izard's, and Bullough's, comments on Mosher's “three dimensions of depth of involvement in human sexual response”
Three dimensions of depth of involvement in human sexual response 1
A model proposed to account for hypnotic phenomena is extended and specifically applied to understanding human sexual response. It is proposed that orgasmic response is potentiated by effective sexual stimulation that is subjectively experienced as (1) pleasurable sexual sensations and (2) the emotions of excitement and joy. Effective sexual stimulation is a joint function of the density of physical sexual stimulation and depth of involvement in …
Effects of committed or casual erotic guided imagery on females' subjective sexual arousal and emotional response
Following deep relaxation, 100 college females listened to erotic guided imagery consisting of (1) sexual invitation, (2) coital contact, and (3) reflection sequences, and responded after each sequence to three measures of subjective sexual arousal and one measure of 10 discrete emotions. The sexual invitation and coital contact sequences contained 24 interspersed cues that portrayed either a casual or a committed interpersonal context. Subjects …
Sex guilt and sex myths in college men and women
Inventories measuring sex guilt, sex experience, and sex myths were completed anonymously by 87 males and 88 female college students to study the prevalence of sex myths and the relation of belief in sex myths to the level of sex experience and the affective‐cognitive structure of sex guilt. College men endorsed significantly more sex myths than college women. The level of sex experience was not correlated with belief in sex myths. Sex guilt was …
Effects of sex guilt and premarital sexual permissiveness on role‐played sex education and moral attitudes
Eighty single college women participated in three role‐playing situations: (a) warm‐up, (b) sex education, and (c) sexual advice to study the influence of attitudes and personality of the sex educator on the process of sex education. The women had previously taken measures of sex guilt, premarital sexual permissiveness, and sex myths. High‐sex guilt women and women with restrictive premarital sexual standards endorsed more sex myths and communica…
An empirical investigation of experimentally induced masturbatory fantasies
The nature and correlates of experimentally induced masturbatory fantasies were studied. Subjects were requested to construct a story using the film of either a male or a female masturbating to orgasm as the eliciting stimulus. Results indicated that there are many sex differences in masturbatory fantasies which are most likely a consequence of the differential ability of men and women to form a positive projective identification with the same-se…
Jealous Conflict in Dating Couples
80 steadily dating couples were assigned by sex to jealous or nonjealous role-playing conditions in which one partner was asked to assume a distancing role while the other was asked to overcome the distance and try to establish closeness with the partner. Using Raush, et al.'s (1974) method of studying interpersonal conflict through improvisation, it was found that persons in distant roles and experiencing jealousy used significantly more rejecti…
Experimenter effects on responses to explicitly sexual stimuli
Sex Differences, Sex Experience, Sex Guilt, and Explicitly Sexual Films 1
Two pornographic films portraying face‐to‐face intercourse and oral‐genital sex between the same couple were viewed by 194 single male and 183 single female undergraduates. The males were more aroused than the females by the film of oral‐genital sex. Females, high sex‐guilt subjects, and less sexually experienced subjects rated the films as more pornographic, disgusting, and offensive. High guilt subjects saw the oral‐genital sex as abnormal. Mal…
Sex guilt and premarital sexual experiences of college students.
Altruism in College Women
Sociometric ratings by sorority women were used reliably to nominate women who were altruistic and nonaltruistic. Evidence for convergent validity was found through high correlations between sociometric altruism and sociometric friendliness and trust while evidence for discriminate validity was inferred when sociometric altruism was unrelated to sociometric independence and physical attractiveness. The top and bottom 20% of the 207 sorority women…
Measurement of guilt in females by self-report inventories.
Scripting the macho man
Tomkins' (1979) script theory offers a coherent, heuristic, and elegant account of the macho personality constellation (Mosher & Sirkin, 1984), consisting of: (a) callous sexual attitudes, (b) violence as manly, and (c) danger as exciting. A script is a set of rules for interpreting, directing, defending, and creating the scenes making up the life of the macho man. The macho script organizes childhood scenes in which so‐called “superior, masculin…
Measuring a macho personality constellation
College men and women respond to X‐rated videos intended for male or female audiences
To assess psychosexual responses to X‐rated videos intended for male or female audiences, 200 male and 195 female undergraduates were randomly assigned to view one of six videos: three X‐rated videos intended for men and three X‐rated videos designed by and for women. Reactions were assessed on measures of sexual arousal, affective response, absorption, and sexual behavior. As predicted, men reported more positive. psychosexual responses to all X…
Macho personality, sexual aggression, and reactions to guided imagery of realistic rape
Macho Men, Machismo, and Sexuality
(1991). Macho Men, Machismo, and Sexuality. Annual Review of Sex Research: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 199-247
Associative sexual responses in relation to sexual arousal, guilt, and external approval contingencies
Guided imagery of rape
Two hypotheses were tested which demonstrated that, although women may be sexually aroused and experience positive affects during the guided imagining of an erotic “rape” fantasy, women respond to guided imagery of a realistic rape with negative affects and no sexual arousal. The affective and subjective sexual responses of 104 undergraduate women were assessed as a function of sex guilt and random assignment to conditions: (a) erotic fantasy of …
Sex Differences, Sex Experience, Sex Guilt, and Explicitly Sexual Films 1
Two pornographic films portraying face‐to‐face intercourse and oral‐genital sex between the same couple were viewed by 194 single male and 183 single female undergraduates. The males were more aroused than the females by the film of oral‐genital sex. Females, high sex‐guilt subjects, and less sexually experienced subjects rated the films as more pornographic, disgusting, and offensive. High guilt subjects saw the oral‐genital sex as abnormal. Mal…
Contributions of sex guilt and masturbation guilt to women's contraceptive attitudes and use
The purposes of this study were, first, to confirm inverse relationships between sex guilt and contraceptive use and attitudes and, second, to demonstrate that guilt regarding masturbation in comparison to sex guilt was a specific inhibitor of diaphragm use. In a sample of 186 single college women, sex guilt accounted for 28% of the variance in nine measures of contraceptive attitudes, thereby confirming the hypothesized inverse relationship. Use…
A causal model of sexual arousal to erotic fantasies
To test a causal model derived from discrete affect (Tomkins, 1962) and involvement (Mosher, 1980) theories, 120 male and 121 female subjects responded to four erotic conditions with self‐reports of discrete affects and subjective sexual arousal. The four erotic conditions were (a) recall of a past heterosexual episode, (b) recall of a past masturbatory episode, (c) free sex fantasy, and (d) guided sex fantasy. The model posits (a) a direct effec…
Three dimensions of depth of involvement in human sexual response 1
A model proposed to account for hypnotic phenomena is extended and specifically applied to understanding human sexual response. It is proposed that orgasmic response is potentiated by effective sexual stimulation that is subjectively experienced as (1) pleasurable sexual sensations and (2) the emotions of excitement and joy. Effective sexual stimulation is a joint function of the density of physical sexual stimulation and depth of involvement in …
Effects of committed or casual erotic guided imagery on females' subjective sexual arousal and emotional response
Following deep relaxation, 100 college females listened to erotic guided imagery consisting of (1) sexual invitation, (2) coital contact, and (3) reflection sequences, and responded after each sequence to three measures of subjective sexual arousal and one measure of 10 discrete emotions. The sexual invitation and coital contact sequences contained 24 interspersed cues that portrayed either a casual or a committed interpersonal context. Subjects …
Sex guilt and sex myths in college men and women
Inventories measuring sex guilt, sex experience, and sex myths were completed anonymously by 87 males and 88 female college students to study the prevalence of sex myths and the relation of belief in sex myths to the level of sex experience and the affective‐cognitive structure of sex guilt. College men endorsed significantly more sex myths than college women. The level of sex experience was not correlated with belief in sex myths. Sex guilt was …
An empirical investigation of experimentally induced masturbatory fantasies
The nature and correlates of experimentally induced masturbatory fantasies were studied. Subjects were requested to construct a story using the film of either a male or a female masturbating to orgasm as the eliciting stimulus. Results indicated that there are many sex differences in masturbatory fantasies which are most likely a consequence of the differential ability of men and women to form a positive projective identification with the same-se…
Effects of sex guilt and premarital sexual permissiveness on role‐played sex education and moral attitudes
Eighty single college women participated in three role‐playing situations: (a) warm‐up, (b) sex education, and (c) sexual advice to study the influence of attitudes and personality of the sex educator on the process of sex education. The women had previously taken measures of sex guilt, premarital sexual permissiveness, and sex myths. High‐sex guilt women and women with restrictive premarital sexual standards endorsed more sex myths and communica…
Threat to sexual freedom
Moralistic intolerance threatens sexual freedom. Sex‐negative ideologies, characterized as Normative and Jehovanist, regard sexuality as dirty—producing moral corruption and creating social disorder. The New Right silences its critics by calling them “permissive” or “secular humanists.” Although they flout the rule of reason, unjust sexual laws remain as a heritage of antisexual ideologies. Most Americans favor tolerance of sexual variations and …
Subjective sexual arousal and involvement
Three measures of subjective sexual arousal were observed across four erotic conditions in a sample of 241 college men and women (a) to refine two multi‐item scales of subjective sexual arousal, (b) to determine the convergent and discriminant validity of three measures of sexual arousal, and (c) to relate these operational definitions of subjective sexual arousal to the construct of subjective sexual arousal within Mosher's (1980) involvement th…
Experimenter effects on responses to explicitly sexual stimuli
Balancing the rights of subjects, scientists, and society
(1988). Balancing the rights of subjects, scientists, and society: 10 principles for human subject committees. The Journal of Sex Research: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 378-385
Approval Motive and Acceptance of “Fake” Personality Test Interpretations which Differ in Favorability
The Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability (M-C SD) scale has been interpreted as measuring a need for social approval and then, more recently, as a measure of vulnerable self-esteem. The present study placed Ss in a situation where gaining approval from the psychologist required accepting unfavorable personality test interpretations as personally characteristic of them when acceptance would lower their self-esteem. High-scoring Ss on the M-C SD scal…
Relationships between Authoritarian Attitudes in Delinquent Girls and the Authoritarian Attitudes and Authoritarian Rearing Practices of Their Mothers
Authoritarian attitudes of 70 lower-class, adolescent, delinquent girls were assessed and related to the authoritarian attitudes and authoritarian rearing practices of their mothers. The mothers' rearing practices and attitudes were measured by their direct report and indirectly by their daughters' perceived mothers' report. Although the measures of authoritarian attitudes and authoritarian rearing practices were moderately correlated, only the a…
The development and multitrait-multimethod matrix analysis of three measures of three aspects of guilt.
Measurement of guilt in females by self-report inventories.
Associative sexual responses in relation to sexual arousal, guilt, and external approval contingencies
Altruism in College Women
Sociometric ratings by sorority women were used reliably to nominate women who were altruistic and nonaltruistic. Evidence for convergent validity was found through high correlations between sociometric altruism and sociometric friendliness and trust while evidence for discriminate validity was inferred when sociometric altruism was unrelated to sociometric independence and physical attractiveness. The top and bottom 20% of the 207 sorority women…
Sex guilt and premarital sexual experiences of college students.
Sex Differences, Sex Experience, Sex Guilt, and Explicitly Sexual Films 1
Two pornographic films portraying face‐to‐face intercourse and oral‐genital sex between the same couple were viewed by 194 single male and 183 single female undergraduates. The males were more aroused than the females by the film of oral‐genital sex. Females, high sex‐guilt subjects, and less sexually experienced subjects rated the films as more pornographic, disgusting, and offensive. High guilt subjects saw the oral‐genital sex as abnormal. Mal…
Experimenter effects on responses to explicitly sexual stimuli
Jealous Conflict in Dating Couples
80 steadily dating couples were assigned by sex to jealous or nonjealous role-playing conditions in which one partner was asked to assume a distancing role while the other was asked to overcome the distance and try to establish closeness with the partner. Using Raush, et al.'s (1974) method of studying interpersonal conflict through improvisation, it was found that persons in distant roles and experiencing jealousy used significantly more rejecti…
Sex guilt and sex myths in college men and women
Inventories measuring sex guilt, sex experience, and sex myths were completed anonymously by 87 males and 88 female college students to study the prevalence of sex myths and the relation of belief in sex myths to the level of sex experience and the affective‐cognitive structure of sex guilt. College men endorsed significantly more sex myths than college women. The level of sex experience was not correlated with belief in sex myths. Sex guilt was …
Effects of sex guilt and premarital sexual permissiveness on role‐played sex education and moral attitudes
Eighty single college women participated in three role‐playing situations: (a) warm‐up, (b) sex education, and (c) sexual advice to study the influence of attitudes and personality of the sex educator on the process of sex education. The women had previously taken measures of sex guilt, premarital sexual permissiveness, and sex myths. High‐sex guilt women and women with restrictive premarital sexual standards endorsed more sex myths and communica…
An empirical investigation of experimentally induced masturbatory fantasies
The nature and correlates of experimentally induced masturbatory fantasies were studied. Subjects were requested to construct a story using the film of either a male or a female masturbating to orgasm as the eliciting stimulus. Results indicated that there are many sex differences in masturbatory fantasies which are most likely a consequence of the differential ability of men and women to form a positive projective identification with the same-se…
Three dimensions of depth of involvement in human sexual response 1
A model proposed to account for hypnotic phenomena is extended and specifically applied to understanding human sexual response. It is proposed that orgasmic response is potentiated by effective sexual stimulation that is subjectively experienced as (1) pleasurable sexual sensations and (2) the emotions of excitement and joy. Effective sexual stimulation is a joint function of the density of physical sexual stimulation and depth of involvement in …
Effects of committed or casual erotic guided imagery on females' subjective sexual arousal and emotional response
Following deep relaxation, 100 college females listened to erotic guided imagery consisting of (1) sexual invitation, (2) coital contact, and (3) reflection sequences, and responded after each sequence to three measures of subjective sexual arousal and one measure of 10 discrete emotions. The sexual invitation and coital contact sequences contained 24 interspersed cues that portrayed either a casual or a committed interpersonal context. Subjects …
Reply to money's, Izard's, and Bullough's, comments on Mosher's “three dimensions of depth of involvement in human sexual response”
Measuring a macho personality constellation
A causal model of sexual arousal to erotic fantasies
To test a causal model derived from discrete affect (Tomkins, 1962) and involvement (Mosher, 1980) theories, 120 male and 121 female subjects responded to four erotic conditions with self‐reports of discrete affects and subjective sexual arousal. The four erotic conditions were (a) recall of a past heterosexual episode, (b) recall of a past masturbatory episode, (c) free sex fantasy, and (d) guided sex fantasy. The model posits (a) a direct effec…
Contributions of sex guilt and masturbation guilt to women's contraceptive attitudes and use
The purposes of this study were, first, to confirm inverse relationships between sex guilt and contraceptive use and attitudes and, second, to demonstrate that guilt regarding masturbation in comparison to sex guilt was a specific inhibitor of diaphragm use. In a sample of 186 single college women, sex guilt accounted for 28% of the variance in nine measures of contraceptive attitudes, thereby confirming the hypothesized inverse relationship. Use…
Macho personality, sexual aggression, and reactions to guided imagery of realistic rape
Guided imagery of rape
Two hypotheses were tested which demonstrated that, although women may be sexually aroused and experience positive affects during the guided imagining of an erotic “rape” fantasy, women respond to guided imagery of a realistic rape with negative affects and no sexual arousal. The affective and subjective sexual responses of 104 undergraduate women were assessed as a function of sex guilt and random assignment to conditions: (a) erotic fantasy of …
Scripting the macho man
Tomkins' (1979) script theory offers a coherent, heuristic, and elegant account of the macho personality constellation (Mosher & Sirkin, 1984), consisting of: (a) callous sexual attitudes, (b) violence as manly, and (c) danger as exciting. A script is a set of rules for interpreting, directing, defending, and creating the scenes making up the life of the macho man. The macho script organizes childhood scenes in which so‐called “superior, masculin…
Subjective sexual arousal and involvement
Three measures of subjective sexual arousal were observed across four erotic conditions in a sample of 241 college men and women (a) to refine two multi‐item scales of subjective sexual arousal, (b) to determine the convergent and discriminant validity of three measures of sexual arousal, and (c) to relate these operational definitions of subjective sexual arousal to the construct of subjective sexual arousal within Mosher's (1980) involvement th…
Wanted
Balancing the rights of subjects, scientists, and society
(1988). Balancing the rights of subjects, scientists, and society: 10 principles for human subject committees. The Journal of Sex Research: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 378-385
Psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (23 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (11 works) · Arousal (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Sexual arousal (9 works) · Human sexuality (8 works) · Sexual behavior (8 works)