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Sexual distress with partnered face-to-face sexual activity : an exploratory qu...
Pascoal, Patrícia M.; Andersson, Gerhard; Fischer, Vinicius J.; Manão, Andreia A.; Oliveira, Cátia; Raposo, Catarina F.; Rosa, Pedro J.Introduction: Sexual distress is interrelated with mental health and relationship quality and is fundamental for establishing a diagnosis of sexual dysfunction, even though it also affects people who do not seek professional clinical help. Research on sexual distress related to partnered sexual activity is limited, and no comprehensive model exists to guide research or clinical interventions. We conducted an on...
Exploring the roles of body dissatisfaction, cognitive distraction, and age in ...
Costa, Ivanilda B.; Rosa, Pedro J.; Pascoal, Patricia M.Background/Objectives: Self-objectification theory posits that objectification of people's bodies, as a synonym for self-worth, translates into body surveillance and dissatisfaction, which has a negative impact on both social and emotional adjustment. According to empirical data based on cognitive models, body dissatisfaction translates into cognitive distraction during sexual activity, affecting sexual respons...
FamFac - A Database of Famous Faces for Psychology Experiments
Monteiro, Fábio; Rodrigues, Paulo; Santos, Isabel M.; Bem-Haja, Pedro; Rosa, Pedro J.High variation in the low-level proprieties of visual stimuli and varying degrees of familiarity with famous faces may have caused a bias in the results of investigations that tried to disentangle the processes involved in familiar and unfamiliar face processing (e.g., temporal differences in the detection of the first event-related potentials specialized in face processing may have been caused by different method...
The impact of a curriculum for resilience promotion in deaf children and adoles...
Freitas, Eunice; Simões, Celeste; Mineiro, Ana; Rosa, Pedro J.; Santos, Anabela C.Resilience is an interactive process involving internal skills that should be promoted, especially in the early stages of development. This study aims to adapt and implement two themes from the European Curriculum for Resilience Promotion – RESCUR, namely, ‘Developing Communication Skills’ and ‘Establishing and Maintaining Healthy Relationships’, for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students. The study included 3...
Pupil dilation reflects the authenticity of received nonverbal vocalizations
Cosme, Gonçalo; Rosa, Pedro J.; Lima, César F.; Tavares, Vânia; Scott, Sophie; Chen, Sinead; Wilcockson, Thomas D. W.; Crawford, Trevor J.; Prata, DianaThe ability to infer the authenticity of other’s emotional expressions is a social cognitive process taking place in all human interactions. Although the neurocognitive correlates of authenticity recognition have been probed, its potential recruitment of the peripheral autonomic nervous system is not known. In this work, we asked participants to rate the authenticity of authentic and acted laughs and cries, whi...
Frequency is not enough : Patterns of use associated with risk of Internet addi...
Gamito, Pedro S.; Morais, Diogo G.; Oliveira, Jorge G.; Brito, Rodrigo; Rosa, Pedro J.; Matos, Margarida Gaspar deThis paper reports an exploratory analysis of the relation between Internet addiction and patterns of use among Portuguese adolescents (n ¼ 2617) from the WHO 2010 Health Behavior in School-aged children study, with a short version of Young's Internet Addiction Test (the brief Internet Addiction Questionnaire e bIAQ) and self-reports on online behaviors and access. Two-Step Cluster analysis identified two clust...