David P. Schmitt is a personality psychologist who founded the International Sexuality Description Project (ISDP). Mental health professional A psychologist is a practitioner of Psychology, the systematic investigation of the mind including Behavior, Cognition, The ISDP is the largest-ever cross-cultural research study on sex and personality. Generally speaking human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings Personality psychology studies personality based on theories of individual differences Over 100 psychologists simultaneously administered an anonymous self-report survey to 17,837 individuals representing 56 different nations, 6 continents, 13 islands, and 30 languages. Direct assessments of people's personality traits and sexual behaviors have led to innovative tests of evolutionary psychology and social role theory. Evolutionary psychology ( EP) attempts to explain mental and psychological traits €”such as Memory, Perception, A second wave of the ISDP is currently underway and includes measures of subjective well-being, social dominance, sexual aggression, rape attitudes, HIV risk, and psychopathy. Rape, also referred to as Sexual assault, is an Assault by a person involving Sexual intercourse with or Sexual penetration of another person Human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) is a Lentivirus (a member of the Retrovirus family that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome Psychopathy ( is a psychological construct that describes chronic immoral and Antisocial behavior
See also
- Schmitt, D. P. (2005). Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-nation study of sex, culture, and strategies of human mating. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 247-311. Behavioral and Brain Sciences ( BBS) founded in 1978 by Stevan Harnad and published by Cambridge University Press, is a Scientific
- Schmitt, D. P. , Alcalay, L. , Allensworth, M. , Allik, J. , Ault, L. , Austers, I. , et al. (2004). Patterns and universals of adult romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions: Are models of self and of other pancultural constructs? Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35, 367-402.
- Schmitt, D. P. , Alcalay, L. , Allik, J. , Angleiter, A. , Ault, L. , Austers, I. , et al. (2004). Patterns and universals of mate poaching across 53 nations: The effects of sex, culture, and personality on romantically attracting another person's partner. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 560-584. The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (often referred to as JPSP) is a monthly psychology journal of the American Psychological Association.
- Schmitt, D. , et al. (2003). Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual variety: Tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 85-104. The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (often referred to as JPSP) is a monthly psychology journal of the American Psychological Association.
- Schmitt, D. P, Shackelford, T. K. , Duntely, J. , Tooke, W. , Buss, D. M. , Fisher, M. L. , Lavallee, M. , & Vasey, P. (2002). Is there an early-30's peak in female sexual desire? Cross-sectional evidence from the United States and Canada. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 11, 1-18.
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