About my research
Dr. Juan Carlos Sierra is a professor of Psychological Assessment and Human Sexuality at the University of Granada (Spain), where he teaches both disciplines at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is Director of the Clinical Psychophysiology and Health Promotion Research Group at the University of Granada and Director of the Human Sexuality Laboratory located at the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC). His main line of research, with more than 25 years of experience, focuses on the field of human sexuality. He is the principal investigator of several competitive research projects related to sexual health, as well as the author of more than a hundred publications in high-impact journals and multiple presentations at international conferences related to sexuality.
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- Solitary Masturbation and Partnered Sexual Activity: Association with Sexual Functioning
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- Who Masturbates Matters? Gender Biases in the Perception of Masturbation
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- Discover the First Model of Sexual Satisfaction in Same-Sex Couples
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- Aspects Related to Masturbation: Gender and Sexual Orientation do Matter
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- Sexual Cognitions Checklist (SCC): A Key Instrument for Assessing Sexual Cognitions
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- Exploring the Connection Between Solitary Masturbation and Orgasm in Sexual Relationships
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- Validation of the Sexual Inhibition/Sexual Excitation Scales - Short Form in LGB people
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- Research on Sexual Satisfaction in LGBTIQA+ Individuals and Couples
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- Demystifying Masturbation: Its Role in the Sexual Arousal of LGB Youth
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- Orgasm and Relationship: Keys to Understand Relationship Satisfaction in Same-Sex Couples
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- Sexual Response Differs in Men and Women Between Masturbation and Sexual Relationships
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- Propiedades psicométricas del Test de Evaluación Clínica de la Depresión en población general española
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- Volunteers for Studies in a Sexuality Laboratory: Are They Different from the General Population?
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- Sexual Arousal and Satisfaction in Young Women in Relationships: A Nuanced Association
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- Coital Alignment Technique for Female Orgasmic Disorder
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- Subjective Orgasm Experience in Different-Sex and Same-Sex Couples
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- The Association of Sexual Arousal with Orgasmic Experience in Same-Sex Relationships
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- Qualitative Evidence of the Subjective Orgasm Experience
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- Association Desire-Sexual satisfaction Based on Adherence to the Sexual Double Standard
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- How do LGB people rate their coupled orgasms?
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- How Does Masturbation Relate to Sexual Satisfaction?
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- Sexual Relations Involve Rewards and Costs: An Analysis by Sex and Sexual Orientation
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- Multidimensionality of the Subjective Orgasm Experience in Masturbation
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- Assessing the Propensity for Sexual Excitation and Inhibition in the Spanish Population
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- Cultivating Relationship Satisfaction to Enhance Sexuality in Same-Sex Couples
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- Romantic jealousy: a transcultural comparison between the United States, Colombia, and Mexico
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- Intimate Partner Violence Negatively Impacts Women´s Sexual Functioning
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- Providing Validity Evidence for the MGH-SFQ
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- Seeking Measures of Sexual Functioning Unbiased by Sexual Orientation
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- Deciphering the Keys to Solitary Sexual Desire
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- Can the Sexual Attitudes of People with Different Sexual Orientations be Compared?
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- Does Sexual Double Standard Harm Sexual Satisfaction?
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- The Promise of Query Answering Systems in Sexuality Studies: Current State, Challenges and Limitations
- Subjective Orgasmic Experience Across Context, Gender and Sexual Orientation
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- Sexual double standard: A gender-based prejudice referring to sexual freedom and sexual shyness
- Network and Exploratory Factorial Analysis of the Depression Clinical Evaluation Test
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- The Bem Sex-Role Inventory: Proposal of a short version in Spanish
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- Masturbation is Associated With Orgasm Satisfaction in Sexual Relationships
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- Propiedades psicométricas del Massachusetts General Hospital-Sexual Functioning Questionnaire en personas mayores
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- Sexual Arousal in People With Different Typologies of Adherence to the Sexual Double Standard
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- The Sexual Double Standard in Spanish-Speaking Countries
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- How do Men and Women Describe Their Orgasms Within the Heterosexual Relationship?
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- Sexual Activity in Peruvian Adolescents
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- Measuring the Subjective Orgasm Experience in Masturbation
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- Masturbation in People Over 50 Years old: Taboo or Indicator of Sexual Health?
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- Subjective Experience of Orgasm in Gays and Lesbians
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- The Role of Sexual Attitudes in Sexual Functioning: Are General or Specific Attitudes More Relevant?
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- FUNCIÓN SEXUAL Y ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA EN PERSONAS MAYORES DEL NORESTE DE MÉXICO
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- How and Why Measure the Attitude Towards Masturbation?
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- Characterizing orgasmic experience in masturbation
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- Sexual response in young people with psychopathological symptoms
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- How does intimate partner violence affect sexuality?
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- Study of sexual satisfaction through typologies of adherence to the sexual double standard
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- What is the relationship between sexual double standards and sexual victimization/aggression?
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- Prevalence of adherence to sexual double standard in Spanish society
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- What is the role of sexual desire in the subjective experience of orgasm?
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- The attitude towards sexual fantasies as an indicator of sexual health
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- The role of sexual excitation/inhibition and the ability to negotiate the sexual relationships
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- What factors influence the sexual satisfaction of gays and lesbians?
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- IEMSSQ: An instrument to assess sexual satisfaction in the Hispanic LGBT population
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- Validación de la Versión Breve de la Experiences in Close Relationship en Adultos con Pareja del mismo Sexo
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- Female Sexual Arousal: How do Women React to a Threat to Their Sexual Performance?
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- Exploring News Contexts and News Forms of Sexual Double Standard
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- What is the relationship between desire and sexual arousal?
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- SOS-6: An instrument for measuring erotophilia in Spain
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- Factors associated with orgasm intensity in sexual relationships
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- Negative effects of the sexual double standard on sexual functioning and risk sexual behaviors
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- Invariance of Spanish version of Sexual Double Standard Scale across sex, age, and education level
- Sexual Double Standard: A Psychometric Study From a Macropsychological Perspective Among the Spanish Heterosexual Population
- Factores interpersonales como predictores de la autoestima sexual en mujeres del noreste de México
- Relación entre la excitación sexual subjetiva y la respuesta genital: diferencias entre hombres y mujeres
- Factorial invariance, differential item functioning, and norms of the Orgasm Rating Scale
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- Evidencias de Validez de la Versión Española de las Sexual Inhibition/Sexual Excitation Scales-Short Form (SIS/SES-SF)
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- La autoestima sexual: su relación con la excitación sexual
- Relationship between orgasm experience and sexual excitation: validation of the model of the subjective orgasm experience
- Psychometric Study of the Interpersonal Jealousy Scale in Colombian Samples
- What are the factors that contribute to the development of sexual dysfunction in breastfeeding women? A systematic scoping review protocol
- Revisión sistemática sobre la experiencia subjetiva del orgasmo
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- Psychometric Properties of the Orgasm Rating Scale in Context of Sexual Relationship in a Spanish Sample
- An abridged Spanish version of Sexual Double Standard Scale: Factorial structure, reliability and validity evidence
- Revisión sistemática sobre la satisfacción sexual en parejas del mismo sexo
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- A systematic review of romantic jealousy in relationships
- Escalas de Valoración de Excitación Sexual y Valoración de Sensaciones Genitales: propiedades psicométricas en muestras españolas
- Validation of the Sexual Sensation Seeking Scale in Spanish Samples
- Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Sexual Inhibition/Sexual Excitation Scales for Men
- Validation of the Spanish Version of the Arizona Sexual Experience Scale (ASEX) Using Self-Reported and Psychophysiological Measures
- Predictors of sexual aggression in adolescents: Gender dominance vs. rape supportive attitudes
- Factores psicosociales del consumo de verduras en niños escolarizados mexicanos de poblaciones urbanas y semi-urbanas
- Spanish version of the Sexual Excitation/Sexual Inhibition Inventory for Women: Factorial structure, reliability and validity evidences
- Validación de la Sexual Assertiveness Scale en mujeres mexicanas
- Adaptation and Validation of the Brief Sexual Opinion Survey (SOS) in a Colombian Sample and Factorial Equivalence with the Spanish Version
- Excitación sexual: una revisión sobre su relación con las conductas sexuales de riesgo
- Use of an Ecological Model to Study Sexual Satisfaction in a Heterosexual Spanish Sample
- Sexual Desire Inventory: Two or Three Dimensions?
- Content and Valence of Sexual Cognitions and Their Relationship With Sexual Functioning in Spanish Men and Women
- Validation of the Interpersonal Exchange Model of Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire in a Spanish Sample
- Relationship between drug use and sexual assertiveness in a Spanish male drug-dependent sample
- Sexual victimisation, sexual cognitions, desire and excitation/inhibition in community Spanish male and female sexual aggressors
- Adaptation and Validation of the Sexual Assertiveness Scale (SAS) in a Sample of Male Drug Users
- Sexual Cognitions in Victims of Childhood and Adolescence/Adulthood Sexual Abuse
- Binge drinking: conductas sexuales de riesgo y drogas facilitadoras del asalto sexual en jóvenes españoles
- Productividad y eficiencia en investigación por comunidades autónomas españolas según la financiación (2012)
- Validación de una escala de conocimiento sobre el VIH y otras infecciones de transmisión sexual en población adolescente
- Sexual satisfaction in a heterosexual and homosexual Spanish sample: the role of socio-demographic characteristics, health indicators, and relational factors
- Funcionamiento sexual en hombres y mujeres víctimas de abuso sexual en la infancia y en la adolescencia/adultez
- Positive and negative sexual cognitions: similarities and differences between men and women from southern Spain
- Ranking 2012 de investigación de las universidades públicas españolas
- Propuesta y validación de una versión breve del Sexual Opinion Survey en población española
- Funcionamiento sexual en personas mayores: influencia de la edad y de factores psicosexuales
- Cognitive behavioral treatment for narcolepsy: can it complement pharmacotherapy?
- A systematic review of sexual satisfaction
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- Equivalencia y Baremos del Hurlbert Index of Sexual Assertiveness Entre Hombres y Mujeres Españoles.
- Construcción de un índice de riesgo para la infección por el VIH y su relación con la doble moral y el poder diádico en adolescentes
- Relationships between personality traits and positive/negative sexual cognitions
- Predicción del tipo de experiencia sexual en función de variables psicológicas y sociodemográficas en adolescentes panameños
- Propiedades psicométricas del index of spouse abuse en una muestra de varones españoles
- Adaptation, Equivalence, and Validation of the Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire-Drugs in a Sample of Drug-Dependent Men
- Effect of Drug Use and Influence of Abstinence on Sexual Functioning in a Spanish Male Drug-Dependent Sample: A Multisite Study
- A further examination of Levine's model of sexual desire
- Validación de la versión española del Sexual Cognitions Checklist (SCC)
- Validación del Massachusetts General Hospital-Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (MGH-SFQ) en población española
- Predictors of Sexual Assertiveness: The Role of Sexual Desire, Arousal, Attitudes, and Partner Abuse
- Is Psychology a Health Profession? An Opinion of a Sample of Psychologists Worldwide
- Sexual Victimization among Spanish College Women and Risk Factors for Sexual Revictimization
- Análisis del deseo sexual en una muestra de drogodependientes en periodo de abstinencia
- Análisis del rendimiento en el doctorado en función de las becas de Formación de Profesorado Universitario y de Formación de Personal Investigador
- Análisis del rendimiento en el doctorado en función de las normativas de los estudios de doctorado en las universidades españolas
- Reliability and Validity of the Spanish Version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–Adolescent (MMPI–A)
- Hurlbert Index of Sexual Assertiveness: A Study of Psychometric Properties in a Spanish Sample
- Factors Associated with Rape-Supportive Attitudes: Sociodemographic Variables, Aggressive Personality, and Sexist Attitudes
- Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire-Short-Form (CSFQ-14) in a Sample of Males with Drug Abuse History
- A validation study of the double standard scale and the rape supportive attitude scale in Brazilian women
- Opinión de Profesores Titulares y Catedráticos de Universidad acerca de criterios y estándares para la acreditación del profesorado universitario
- Análisis psicométrico de la versión española del Brief Sexual Function Inventory (BSFI) en una muestra de hombres con historia de abuso de drogas
- Male Sexual Coercion: Analysis of a Few Associated Factors
- Exploration of the psychometric characteristics of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale in a Spanish adolescent sample
- Knowledge and skills that facilitate the personal support dimension of citizenship.
- Insomnia Severity Index: algunos indicadores acerca de su fiabilidad y validez en una muestra de personas mayores
- Distress in Response to Emotional and Sexual Infidelity: Evidence of Evolved Gender Differences in Spanish Students
- Psychometric properties of the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale and separation criterion between Spanish youths with and without subtypes of social anxiety
- Further Examination of Measurement Properties of Spanish Version of the Sexual Desire Inventory with Undergraduates and Adolescent Students
- Sex Differences in Response to Sexual and Emotional Infidelity Among Spanish and Chilean Students
- Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a Spanish Version of the Sex Fantasy Questionnaire: Assessing Gender Differences
- Estructura interna de la Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes about Sleep Scale en una muestra española de trabajadores con turnos rotatorios
- The assessment of residual effects of a single dose of diazepam on visually defined EEG patterns
- The effects of diazepam on self-informed arousal and sustained attention
- Personality differences between short and long sleepers
- Actitud hacia la masturbación en adolescentes: propiedades psicométricas de la versión española del attitudes toward masturbation inventory