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Overview

Stuart Brody is affiliated with Charles University in the Czech Republic and focuses their research within social sciences, psychology, and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Brody's research primarily addresses topics related to crime patterns and interventions, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, as well as the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

  • Rationalization is a suboptimal defense mechanism associated with clinical and forensic problems, 2020, Behavioral and Brain Sciences

They frequently collaborate with coauthor Rui Miguel Costa.

  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • The Relative Health Benefits of Different Sexual Activities

    Stuart Brody

  • Mortality in a Long-term Open Cohort of Prostitute Women

    John J. Potterat;Devon D. Brewer;Stephen Q. Muth;Richard B. Rothenberg

  • ORIGINAL RESEARCH—ANATOMY/PHYSIOLOGY: Satisfaction (Sexual, Life, Relationship, and Mental Health) Is Associated Directly with Penile–Vaginal Intercourse, but Inversely with Other Sexual Behavior Frequencies

    Stuart Brody;Rui Miguel Costa

  • Women's Clitoris, Vagina, and Cervix Mapped on the Sensory Cortex: fMRI Evidence

    Barry R. Komisaruk;Barry R. Komisaruk;Nan Wise;Eleni Frangos;Wen‐Ching Liu

  • A randomized controlled trial of high dose ascorbic acid for reduction of blood pressure, cortisol, and subjective responses to psychological stress

    Stuart Brody;Ragnar Preut;Kerstin Schommer;Thomas H Schürmeyer

  • Emotional qualities of odors and their influence on the startle reflex in humans

    W. Miltner;M. Matjak;C. Braun;H. Diekmann

  • Women's relationship quality is associated with specifically penile-vaginal intercourse orgasm and frequency

    Rui Miguel Costa;Stuart Brody

  • Let it be sexual: how health care transmission of AIDS in Africa was ignored.

    David Gisselquist;John J Potterat;Stuart Brody;Francois Vachon

  • Intraocular pressure changes: the influence of psychological stress and the Valsalva maneuver.

    Stuart Brody;Carl Erb;Ralf Veit;Harald Rau

  • The post-orgasmic prolactin increase following intercourse is greater than following masturbation and suggests greater satiety.

    Stuart Brody;Tillmann H.C. Krüger

  • Blood pressure reactivity to stress is better for people who recently had penile–vaginal intercourse than for people who had other or no sexual activity

    Stuart Brody

  • Mounting anomalies in the epidemiology of HIV in Africa: cry the beloved paradigm

    Devon D Brewer;Stuart Brody;Ernest Drucker;David Gisselquist

  • High-dose ascorbic acid increases intercourse frequency and improves mood: a randomized controlled clinical trial

    Stuart Brody

  • Baroreceptor stimulation alters cortical activity.

    Harald Rau;Paul Pauli;Stuart Brody;Thomas Elbert

  • Male and Female Circumcision Associated With Prevalent HIV Infection in Virgins and Adolescents in Kenya, Lesotho, and Tanzania

    Devon D. Brewer;John J. Potterat;John M. Roberts;Stuart Brody

  • Slimness is Associated with Greater Intercourse and Lesser Masturbation Frequency

    Stuart Brody

  • Concordance between women's physiological and subjective sexual arousal is associated with consistency of orgasm during intercourse but not other sexual behavior.

    Stuart Brody;Ellen Laan;Rik H W van Lunsen

  • Female orgasm(s): one, two, several.

    Emmanuele A. Jannini;Alberto Rubio‐Casillas;Beverly Whipple;Odile Buisson

  • Vaginal orgasm is associated with less use of immature psychological defense mechanisms.

    Stuart Brody;Rui Miguel Costa

  • Baroreceptor stimulation: Pain perception and sensory thresholds

    Conrad Droste;Attila Kardos;Stuart Brody;Mark W. Greenlee

Frequent Co-Authors

Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen
Ursula Hess
Ursula Hess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg
Hartmut Schächinger
Hartmut Schächinger University of Trier
Thomas Elbert
Thomas Elbert University of Konstanz
Geoffrey F. Miller
Geoffrey F. Miller University of New Mexico
Markus Heinrichs
Markus Heinrichs University of Freiburg
Agneta H. Fischer
Agneta H. Fischer University of Amsterdam
Ulrike Ehlert
Ulrike Ehlert University of Zurich
Ellen Laan
Ellen Laan University of Amsterdam

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