Publications by authors named "Jaro Pekal"
Article Synopsis
- A study investigated how gamers mentally simulate future gaming scenarios (called flash-forwards) and how these influence their cravings for gaming.
- The experiment involved 77 gamers who visualized future gaming experiences, rating the vividness and emotional impact of their mental imagery, while also noting their cravings to play.
- It was found that eye movements can reduce the intensity of gaming-related desires and that problematic gamers experience less vivid and pleasurable flash-forwards compared to recreational players.
Sexual Excitability and Dysfunctional Coping Determine Cybersex Addiction in Homosexual Males.
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw
October 2015
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 sample of homosexual males.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent 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, 128 heterosexual male participants completed an Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998) modified with pornographic pictures.
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