Editing Sexual attraction (section)

==High anxiety==
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Research conducted by Donald G. Dutton and Arthur P. Aron in the 1970s aimed to find the relation between sexual attraction and high anxiety conditions. In doing so, 85 male participants were contacted by an attractive female interviewer at either a [[suspension bridge effect|fear-arousing suspension bridge]] or a normal bridge. Conclusively, it was shown that the male participants who were asked by the female interviewer to perform the [[thematic apperception test]] (TAT) on the fear-arousing bridge, wrote more sexual content in the stories and attempted, with greater effort, to contact the interviewer after the experiment than those participants who performed the TAT on the normal bridge. In another test, a male participant, chosen from a group of 80, was given anticipated shocks. With him was an attractive female confederate, who was also being shocked. The experiment showed that the male's sexual imagery in the TAT was much higher when self shock was anticipated and not when the female confederate shock was anticipated.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dutton|first=Donald G|author2=Arthur P. Aron |title=Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety|journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|year=1974|volume=30|issue=4|doi=10.1037/h0037031|pages=510–517|pmid=4455773|citeseerx=10.1.1.335.100|s2cid=31921849 }}</ref>