There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that individuals with high interoceptive awareness experience
more emotional arousal, for the same objective bodily arousal, than people with low interoceptive awareness [56]--[60].
While researchers found that playing strategy games better engaged memory and cognitive control brain regions, making them better suited for improving memory tasks, they hypothesize that action games that stimulate the limbic area and elicit
more emotional arousal might be beneficial for other clinical populations like patients with mood disorders.
Not exact matches
They include the light from our screens interfering with our circadian rhythms, social media promoting «
emotional or cognitive
arousal» that keeps us up, or simply people putting off going to bed to play just one
more round of that Facebook game or post another pic on Instagram.
It is probably true that the
arousal of passion is
more closely linked with
emotional factors in many women than in many men.
As Watson notes, these sessions might well «be too brief to allow for adequate
emotional processing, may increase
arousal and anxiety levels or may inadvertently decrease the likelihood that individuals will pursue
more intense interventions.
Far
more in?uential are psychobiological factors, including attachment styles,
arousal regulation, family history, and social -
emotional intelligence.
Men are
more likely to rehearse distress - maintaining thoughts than women, which may prolong their physiological
arousal and hyper - vigilance, often causing their partners to flare up in response, until both are brought to a point of
emotional detachment and avoidance.
Men are
more likely to rehearse distress - maintaining thoughts than women, which may prologue their physiological
arousal and hypervigilance, often causing their partners to flare up in response, until one by one, each partner is brought to a point of
emotional detachment and avoidance.
I would also suggest that your next article about the female orgasm should certainly, as Clea mentions, include some discussion of the fact that one of the major differences between the male and female orgasm (and in fact, between male and female readiness for sex, or degree of
arousal, in general) is that
emotional states seem to be much
more important (which is not at all the same as saying that women don't like casual sex or can't be aroused by one - night stands, if that happens to be the
emotional situation they are comfortable with).
Although the existing research suggests diverse outcomes, scholars have documented that young children exposed to trauma (for example, maltreatment and other forms of violence) are
more likely than children who have not been exposed to trauma to experience physiologic changes at the neurotransmitter and hormonal levels (and perhaps even at the level of brain structure) that render them susceptible to heightened
arousal and an incapacity to adapt emotions to an appropriate level.21 This
emotional state increases their sensitivity to subsequent experiences of trauma and impairs their capacity to focus, remember, learn, and engage in self - control.22
You can seek counseling for concerns of infidelity, intimacy issues, communication concerns,
emotional affairs, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, low testosterone, vaginismus, increased and decreased desire, orgasmic difficulties, genital and sexual pain, sex and porn addiction, sexual
arousal difficulties, sexual anxiety, sexual abuse or other trauma, fertility complications, and many
more concerns.
Sensitivity towards these bodily conditions and
more specifically, towards changes in one's physiological state as represented by IS to one's heartbeat, has been shown to moderate the effect of bodily responses on
emotional arousal [34, 35].
Specifically, established findings show that adolescents are at a developmental stage in which the limbic - striatal system (responsible for
emotional drive,
emotional response,
arousal, novelty - and sensation - seeking, and reward sensitivity) is
more quickly and fully developed than the PFC and related circuitry, which is not fully developed until adulthood (responsible for self - regulation,
emotional control, impulse and cognitive control, planning, decision making, and executive functioning)(see [3 • •, 29 • •, 34, 35, 36, 37 • •, 38] for reviews).1
In line with this,
emotional arousal was positively correlated with increases in sAA (r = 0.286, P = 0.028) and with
more positive observed behavior during couple conflict (r = 0.291, P = 0.026) in men.
Participants were
more likely to attribute a female - stereotyped motive (e.g., romantic relationship characteristics, feeling «ready»,
emotional investment) and less likely to attribute a male - stereotyped motive («easy»,
arousal, physical appearance) to female peers than to male peers.
It might be hypothesized that decreased
emotional arousal in women and increased
emotional arousal along with
more positive behavior in response to OT in men might help couples to overcome the above - described demand / withdraw patterns and possibly improve relationship satisfaction in the long term.