Professor Gurit E Birnbaum
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
Professor, Psychology
Israel
My co-authors include
Tsachi Ein-Dor
Dr Omri Gillath
Dr. Moran Mizrahi
My Publications
Making the right first impression: Sexual priming encourages attitude change and self-p...
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
January 2020
The role of implicit sexual desire in romantic relationships
Personality and Individual Differences
October 2019
Attachment Anxiety Predicts A Steep Decline in Men’s Sexual Desire during the ‘Honeymoo...
European Journal of Social Psychology
February 2019
Evolved to be connected: the dynamics of attachment and sex over the course of romantic...
Current Opinion in Psychology
February 2019
Our Fragile Relationships: Relationship Threat and Its Effect on the Allure of Alternat...
Archives of Sexual Behavior
January 2019
The Bitter Pill: Cessation of Oral Contraceptives Enhances the Appeal of Alternative Mates
Evolutionary Psychological Science
January 2019
Individuals in a Romantic Relationship Express Guilt and Devaluate Attractive Alternati...
January 2019
Fueled by desire: Sexual activation facilitates the enactment of relationship-initiatin...
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
November 2018
Being on the same wavelength: Behavioral synchrony between partners and its influence o...
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
November 2018
What Fantasies Can Do to Your Relationship: The Effects of Sexual Fantasies on Couple I...
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
August 2018
Are you into me? Uncertainty and sexual desire in online encounters and established rel...
Computers in Human Behavior
August 2018
You haven’t been on my mind lately
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
March 2018
The Fragile Spell of Desire: A Functional Perspective on Changes in Sexual Desire Acros...
Personality and Social Psychology Review
June 2017
Sex Unleashes Your Tongue: Sexual Priming Motivates Self-Disclosure to a New Acquaintan...
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
March 2017
Can Contraceptive Pill Affect Future Offspring’s Health? The Implications of Using Horm...
Evolutionary Psychological Science
November 2016
What robots can teach us about intimacy: The reassuring effects of robot responsiveness...
Computers in Human Behavior
October 2016
Machines as a source of consolation: Robot responsiveness increases human approach beha...
March 2016
Reassuring sex: Can sexual desire and intimacy reduce relationship-specific attachment ...
European Journal of Social Psychology
February 2016
Resolving The Intimacy-Desire Paradox
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
January 2016
Like a Horse and Carriage?
European Psychologist
October 2015
Fatal Suppression
Social Psychological and Personality Science
February 2015
The magnetism that holds us together: sexuality and relationship maintenance across rel...
Current Opinion in Psychology
February 2015
Coping with mate poaching: gender differences in detection of infidelity-related threats
Evolution and Human Behavior
January 2015
Why Do Men Prefer Nice Women?
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
July 2014
When sex goes wrong: A behavioral systems perspective on individual differences in sexu...
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
May 2014
Robot responsiveness to human disclosure affects social impression and appeal
January 2014
Misguided attraction: The contribution of normative and individual-differences componen...
Journal of Research in Personality
June 2013
Is it my overactive imagination? The effects of contextually activated attachment insec...
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
July 2012
A fiery conflict: Attachment orientations and the effects of relational conflict on sex...
Personal Relationships
July 2012
When Does Responsiveness Pique Sexual Interest? Attachment and Sexual Desire in Initial...
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
April 2012
Changes in Sexual Experiences and Relationship Quality During Pregnancy
Archives of Sexual Behavior
September 2011
In and Out of a Daydream
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
July 2011
Desire under attack: Attachment orientations and the effects of relationship threat on ...
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
October 2010
Desire in the face of death: Terror management, attachment, and sexual motivation
Personal Relationships
October 2010
Bound to interact: The divergent goals and complex interplay of attachment and sex with...
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
March 2010
The Thin Line Between Reality and Imagination: Attachment Orientations and the Effects ...
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
September 2008
When Sex Primes Love: Subliminal Sexual Priming Motivates Relationship Goal Pursuit
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
May 2008
Beyond the borders of reality: Attachment orientations and sexual fantasies
Personal Relationships
June 2007
Does Subliminal Exposure to Sexual Stimuli Have the Same Effects on Men and Women?
The Journal of Sex Research
April 2007
Is it all about intimacy? Age, menopausal status, and women?s sexuality
Personal Relationships
March 2007
Attachment orientations, sexual functioning, and relationship satisfaction in ...
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
February 2007
Women's sexual working models: An evolutionary‐attachment perspective
The Journal of Sex Research
November 2006
Measuring subgoals of the sexual behavioral system: What is sex good for?
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
October 2006
When sex is more than just sex: Attachment orientations, sexual experience, and relatio...
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
January 2006
Attachment orientations and spouse support in adults with type 2 diabetes
Psychology Health & Medicine
May 2005
Archives of Sexual Behavior
January 2003
Women's experience of heterosexual intercourse—scale construction, factor structure, an...
The Journal of Sex Research
August 2001
Stress and accessibility of proximity-related thoughts: Exploring the normative and int...
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
January 2000
Stress and accessibility of proximity-related thoughts: Exploring the normative and int...
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
January 2000
Attachment orientations and the effects of relationship insecurities on sexual motives
Effects of attachment orientations and relationship insecurities on sexual motives
Sexy building blocks: The contribution of the sexual system to attachment formation and...