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  1. Competence striving in the bedroom: applying the 2 × 2 achievement goal model to sex

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  2. The interplay between sexual desire and relationship functioning

    Article • Nature Reviews Psychology, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  3. The Power to Flirt: Power within Romantic Relationships and Its Contribution to Expressions of Extradyadic Desire

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  4. When Your Partner is Being Flirted With: The Impact of Unsolicited Attention on Perceived Partner Desirability and Mate Retention Efforts

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  5. The enticement of feeling understood, validated, and cared for: How does perceiving a partner as responsive affect the sexual arena?

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychology, August 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  6. Biting the forbidden fruit: The effect of flirting with a virtual agent on attraction to real alternative and existing partners

    Article • Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  7. The Oxford Handbook of Human Mating

    Article • December 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  8. Put Me in Your Shoes: Does Perspective-Taking Inoculate Against the Appeal of Alternative Partners?

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  9. Is Infidelity Contagious? Online Exposure to Norms of Adultery and Its Effect on Expressions of Desire for Current and Alternative Partners

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  10. Temptation at your door: Receiving mate poaching attempts and perceived Partners' desirability

    Article • Personal Relationships, July 2022, Wiley

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  11. Sexual Desire Mediates the Relationship-Promoting Effects of Perceived Partner Mate Value

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  12. Seeing what you want to see: Sexual activation makes potential partners seem more appealing and romantically interested

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, August 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Moran Mizrahi, Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  13. Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Andrea B. Horn, Dr Anik Debrot, Dr. Moran Mizrahi, Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  14. No pain, no gain: Perceived partner mate value mediates the desire-inducing effect of being hard to get during online and face-to-face encounters

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  15. Making the right first impression: Sexual priming encourages attitude change and self-presentation lies during encounters with potential partners

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, January 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  16. The role of implicit sexual desire in romantic relationships

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, October 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  17. Attachment Anxiety Predicts A Steep Decline in Men’s Sexual Desire during the ‘Honeymoon’ Phase

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, February 2019, Wiley

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  18. Evolved to be connected: the dynamics of attachment and sex over the course of romantic relationships

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychology, February 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  19. Our Fragile Relationships: Relationship Threat and Its Effect on the Allure of Alternative Mates

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  20. The Bitter Pill: Cessation of Oral Contraceptives Enhances the Appeal of Alternative Mates

    Article • Evolutionary Psychological Science, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  21. Individuals in a Romantic Relationship Express Guilt and Devaluate Attractive Alternatives after Flirting with a Virtual Bartender

    Article • January 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  22. Fueled by desire: Sexual activation facilitates the enactment of relationship-initiating behaviors

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  23. Being on the same wavelength: Behavioral synchrony between partners and its influence on the experience of intimacy

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  24. What Fantasies Can Do to Your Relationship: The Effects of Sexual Fantasies on Couple Interactions

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, August 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  25. Are you into me? Uncertainty and sexual desire in online encounters and established relationships

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, August 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  26. You haven’t been on my mind lately

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Moran Mizrahi, Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  27. The Fragile Spell of Desire: A Functional Perspective on Changes in Sexual Desire Across Relationship Development

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Review, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  28. Sex Unleashes Your Tongue: Sexual Priming Motivates Self-Disclosure to a New Acquaintance and Interest in Future Interactions

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  29. Can Contraceptive Pill Affect Future Offspring’s Health? The Implications of Using Hormonal Birth Control for Human Evolution

    Article • Evolutionary Psychological Science, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  30. What robots can teach us about intimacy: The reassuring effects of robot responsiveness to human disclosure

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, October 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  31. Machines as a source of consolation: Robot responsiveness increases human approach behavior and desire for companionship

    Article • March 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  32. Reassuring sex: Can sexual desire and intimacy reduce relationship-specific attachment insecurities?

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, February 2016, Wiley

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  33. Resolving The Intimacy-Desire Paradox

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  34. Like a Horse and Carriage?

    Article • European Psychologist, October 2015, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  35. Fatal Suppression

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  36. The magnetism that holds us together: sexuality and relationship maintenance across relationship development

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychology, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  37. Coping with mate poaching: gender differences in detection of infidelity-related threats

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, January 2015, Elsevier

    Tsachi Ein-Dor, Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  38. Why Do Men Prefer Nice Women?

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  39. When sex goes wrong: A behavioral systems perspective on individual differences in sexual attitudes, motives, feelings, and behaviors.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, May 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr. Moran Mizrahi

  40. Robot responsiveness to human disclosure affects social impression and appeal

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  41. Sexy building blocks: The contribution of the sexual system to attachment formation and maintenance.

    Article • January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  42. Misguided attraction: The contribution of normative and individual-differences components of the sexual system to mating preferences

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, June 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  43. Is it my overactive imagination? The effects of contextually activated attachment insecurity on sexual fantasies

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, July 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  44. A fiery conflict: Attachment orientations and the effects of relational conflict on sexual motivation

    Article • Personal Relationships, July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  45. When Does Responsiveness Pique Sexual Interest? Attachment and Sexual Desire in Initial Acquaintanceships

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, April 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  46. Changes in Sexual Experiences and Relationship Quality During Pregnancy

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  47. In and Out of a Daydream

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr Omri Gillath

  48. Desire under attack: Attachment orientations and the effects of relationship threat on sexual motivations

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, October 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  49. Desire in the face of death: Terror management, attachment, and sexual motivation

    Article • Personal Relationships, October 2010, Wiley

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  50. Bound to interact: The divergent goals and complex interplay of attachment and sex within romantic relationships

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, March 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  51. The Thin Line Between Reality and Imagination: Attachment Orientations and the Effects of Relationship Threats on Sexual Fantasies

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, September 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  52. When Sex Primes Love: Subliminal Sexual Priming Motivates Relationship Goal Pursuit

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, May 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr Omri Gillath

  53. Beyond the borders of reality: Attachment orientations and sexual fantasies

    Article • Personal Relationships, June 2007, Wiley

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  54. Does Subliminal Exposure to Sexual Stimuli Have the Same Effects on Men and Women?

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr Omri Gillath

  55. Is it all about intimacy? Age, menopausal status, and women?s sexuality

    Article • Personal Relationships, March 2007, Wiley

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  56. Attachment orientations, sexual functioning, and relationship satisfaction in a community sample of women

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, February 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  57. Women's sexual working models: An evolutionary‐attachment perspective

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, November 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  58. Measuring subgoals of the sexual behavioral system: What is sex good for?

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, October 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr Omri Gillath

  59. When sex is more than just sex: Attachment orientations, sexual experience, and relationship quality.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr Omri Gillath

  60. Attachment orientations and spouse support in adults with type 2 diabetes

    Article • Psychology Health & Medicine, May 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  61. Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  62. Women's experience of heterosexual intercourse—scale construction, factor structure, and relations to orgasmic disorder

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, August 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  63. Stress and accessibility of proximity-related thoughts: Exploring the normative and intraindividual components of attachment theory.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  64. Stress and accessibility of proximity-related thoughts: Exploring the normative and intraindividual components of attachment theory.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  65. Attachment orientations and the effects of relationship insecurities on sexual motives

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum

  66. Effects of attachment orientations and relationship insecurities on sexual motives

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum