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Guns And Porn: A Look At The Semantic Effects Of The Relationship Between Aggression And Sexuality, Niki J. Kersey
Guns And Porn: A Look At The Semantic Effects Of The Relationship Between Aggression And Sexuality, Niki J. Kersey
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Physiological similarities and sexual assault statistics suggest a link between sexuality and aggression. With this project, the aim was to use a cognitive approach to understand and confirm this connection; specifically, the goal was to determine whether the relationship between these concepts is reflected in semantic networks in the brain. In order to determine the existence of these semantic relationships, a lexical decision task was formed using a list of words rated as highly related to aggression and a list of words rated as highly related to sexuality. If aggression and sexuality are semantically linked, we expect to find significantly …