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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology Psychology, Department of 3-9-1980 Female Sexual Arousal and the Menstrual Cycle Paula Englander-Golden Ph.D. paulaeg@ Horng-Shing Chang Mary R . Witmer Ph.D. Richard A. Dienstbier University of N ebraska-Lincoln, rdienstbier2@ Follow this and additional works at : /psychfacpub Part of the Psychiatry and Psychology Commons Englander-Golden, Paula Ph.D.; Chang, Horng-Shing; Witmer, Mary R . Ph.D.; and Dienstbier, Richard A., Female Sexual Arousal and the Menstrual Cycle (1980). Faculty P ublications, Department of Psychology. Paper 201. /psychfacpub/201 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Psychology, Department of at DigitalCommons@ niversity of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@ niversity of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Journal of Human Stress 6 (March 1980), pp. 42-48. Reprinted with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802. Copyright © 1980. Female Sexual Arousal and the Menstrual Cycle Paula Englander-Golden, Ph.D., Horng-Shing Chang, Mary R. Whitmore, Ph.D., and Richard A. Dienstbier, Ph.D. Abstract Self-reports of sexual arousal were signifi cantly affected by conditions under which they were elicited. Such self-reports in women not taking oral contraceptives were congruent with a hormonal basis for such arousal only when the women were “unaware” that the stud