Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

The role of implicit sexual desire in romantic relationships

• Personality and Individual Differences
• October 2019

When insecurity dampens desire: Attachment anxiety in men amplifies the decline in sexu...

• 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...