Chloe Tasker
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Sexual Arousal
- Sexual Desire
- Relationships
- Sexual Wellbeing
- Relationship Wellbeing
Biography
I am a SeNSS funded PhD Psychology student, in my second year. My research focuses on the relationship between sexual arousal and sexual desire, specifically how they might be concordant or discordant, and whether this might have implications in romantic relationships. I am exploring how this relationship might impact relationship, sexual, and personal wellbeing, sexual and relationship satisfaction, and physiological stress when discussing intimacy with your romantic partner. I use physiological measures of heart rate variability in this research, as well as collecting large amounts of survey data. I have experience in using SPSS, RStudio and MPlus. Previously my research has focused on investigating previous (the preparation hypothesis) and novel (empathy and sexual competition) explanations of women's bisexual arousal patterns. I have used physiological measures of sexual arousal in my previous research including plethysmography, and pupil dilation. I also explored new methods to measure lubrication in women, to assess the validity of the preparation hypothesis.
Qualifications
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BSc Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience The University of Essex (2021)
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MSc Research Methods in Psychology The University of Essex (2022)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Sexual Arousal and Sexual Desire in Romantic Relationships
My thesis focuses on the relationship between sexual arousal and desire, specifically how they might be concordant or discordant, and what implications discordance might have in romantic relationships. I am exploring how this relationship might impact relationship, sexual, and personal wellbeing, sexual and relationship satisfaction, and physiological stress when discussing intimacy with your romantic partner.
Supervisor: Veronica Lamarche , Helge Gillmeister
Research interests
The relationship between sexual arousal and sexual desire
I am interested in how sexual arousal and desire are defined, measured, and related to one another. I am particularly interested in whether sexual arousal and desire might be discordant (mismatched). As past research as often considered arousal and desire to be synonymous constructs, I believe that it has rarely be tested under what conditions they may be concordant or discordant.
The Conversation | Women are more likely to identify as bisexual - can research into sexual arousal tell us why?
I wrote this blog post based on research I conducted in the first year of my PhD. It has now gained over 100,000 views and been reposted by PsyPost, News24, and Go Magazine. https://theconversation.com/women-are-more-likely-to-identify-as-bisexual-can-research-into-sexual-arousal-tell-us-why-197294
