An attempt was made to determine if sex differences existed for attitudes, cognitive structures, and emotional reactivity for concepts of sex and security and for stimuli. It was hypothesized that for males, the concept of sex and/or sexual stimuli will be ranked higher, elicit a stronger physiological response, elicit a greater number of responses in a free-association task, and be more prevalent in compositions written about love, and that for females, the concept of security and/or security stimuli will be greater on the above measures. The data (with the exception of the paragraph written about love) were interpreted as supporting the sex differences along the sex and security dimensions.
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