Aims: In the last 5 years a deluge of articles on the topic of Internet addiction (IA) has
proposed many candidate symptoms as evidence of this proposed disease. We critically …

The addiction model is rarely used to describe high-frequency use of visual sexual stimuli
(VSS) in research, yet common in media and clinical practice. The theory and research …

ABSTRACT A great deal of pornography research relies on dubious measurements.
Measurement of pornography use has been highly variable across studies and existing …

Concerns about problematic gaming behaviors deserve our full attention. However, we
claim that it is far from clear that these problems can or should be attributed to a new …

This commentary paper critically discusses the recent debate paper by Petry et al.(2014) that
argued there was now an international consensus for assessing Internet Gaming Disorder …

The term “asexual” has been defined in many different ways and asexuality has received
very little research attention. In a small qualitative study (N= 4), individuals who self …

We greatly appreciate the care and thought that is evident in the 10 commentaries that
discuss our debate paper, the majority of which argued in favor of a formalized ICD-11 …

This study examined the utility of a lifetime cumulative adversities and trauma model in
predicting the severity of mental health symptoms of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic …

There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career
advancement in the sciences. However, psychological science itself has yet to be the focus …

Little is known about why individuals vary in their levels of sexual desire. Information
processing models, like Barlow's (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 54: 140 …