Honors Senior Theses/Projects
Title
An Examination of Sex-Differences in Emotion Identification as Influenced by BDSM Negotiations
Date of Award
6-30-2019
Type (DCMI Terms)
Text
Exit Requirement
Undergraduate Honors Thesis/Project
Department
Honors Program
Faculty Advisor
Jaime Cloud
Honors Program Director
Dr. Gavin Keulks
Language
eng
Abstract
Abstinence-only sexual education curriculums are dominant in the USA, which leads the younger generation to seek sexual health knowledge from the next most readily available source—the media (Leistner & Mark, 2016); mass media portrayal of bondage-discipline/dominant-submissive/sadist-masochist (BDSM) relationships borders on the pathological. The present study sought to destigmatize BDSM practitioners through the use of empirical data. Participants of this study read a half page vignette of a conversation (to be imagined between them and a sexual partner) pertaining to either a sexual history overview, an adrenaline producing activity, or a BDSM-scene negotiation. Immediately following, participants viewed a self-progressed slide show of the seven culturally universal emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, contempt and surprise) at a rate of .1 seconds each, and judged which emotion they saw in which face. It was predicted that participants having read and imagined the BDSM-scene negotiation would have better emotion detection scores than participants in either the sexual history or adrenaline activity discussion and that women would be better able to accurately identify emotions, as compared to men. Predictions failed to receive support from the data analysis.
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Recommended Citation
DeBolt, Kaylee, "An Examination of Sex-Differences in Emotion Identification as Influenced by BDSM Negotiations" (2019). Honors Senior Theses/Projects. 197.
https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/honors_theses/197
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