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Overview

Walter Everaerd was affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focused on the fields of Psychology and Medicine, encompassing work within the subfields of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their scholarly contributions addressed topics primarily related to Sexual function and dysfunction studies, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology, and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior.

Throughout their career, Everaerd published in notable venues including The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Among their recent publications was the paper titled Evidence for Persistence of Sexual Evaluative Learning Effects, published in 2020 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Everaerd collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Stephanie Both
  • Mirte Brom
  • Ellen Laan
  • Philip Spinhoven

Best Publications

  • Salivary alpha amylase as marker for adrenergic activity during stress: effect of betablockade.

    Anda van Stegeren;Nicolas Rohleder;Walter Everaerd;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Automatic processes and the appraisal of sexual stimuli: Toward an information processing model of sexual arousal

    Erick Janssen;Walter Everaerd;Mark Spiering;Jeroen Janssen

  • Psychosocial stress impairs working memory at high loads: An association with cortisol levels and memory retrieval

    N.Y.L. Oei;W.T.A.M. Everaerd;B.M. Elzinga;S.M. van Well

  • Impact of climacteric on well-being. A survey based on 5213 women 39 to 60 years old.

    Anna Oldenhave;Lazlo J.B. Jaszmann;Ary A. Haspels;Walter Th.A.M. Everaerd

  • Psychological and cognitive functioning in children and adolescents with congenital heart disease: a meta-analysis.

    Petra A Karsdorp;Walter Everaerd;Merel Kindt;Barbara J M Mulder

  • Assessment of female sexual arousal: Response specificity and construct validity

    E.T.M. Laan;W.T.A.M. Everaerd;A.V.A.M. Evers

  • Women's sexual and emotional responses to male- and female-produced erotica

    E.T.M. Laan;W.T.A.M. Everaerd;W. van Bellen;G.J.F.P. Hanewald

  • Memory for emotional events: differential effects of centrally versus peripherally acting β-blocking agents

    A. H. Van Stegeren;W. Everaerd;L. Cahill;J. L. Mcgaugh

  • Determinants of female sexual arousal: Psychophysiological theory and data

    E.T.M. Laan;W.T.A.M. Everaerd

  • The effects of tibolone on vaginal blood flow, sexual desire and arousability in postmenopausal women.

    E. Laan;R. H. W. van Lunsen;W. Everaerd

  • Noradrenaline mediates amygdala activation in men and women during encoding of emotional material.

    Anda H. van Stegeren;Rutger Goekoop;Walter Everaerd;Philip Scheltens

  • Chronic renal failure and sexual functioning: clinical status versus objectively assessed sexual response.

    A.W.F. Toorians;E. Janssen;E.T.M. Laan;L.J.G. Gooren

  • Determinants of subjective experience of sexual arousal in women: Feedback from genital arousal and erotic stimulus content

    E.T.M. Laan;W.T.A.M. Everaerd;J. van der Velde;J.H. Geer

  • Hysterectomized women with ovarian conservation report more severe climacteric complaints than do normal climacteric women of similar age.

    Anna Oldenhave;Lazlo J.B. Jaszmann;Walter Th.A.M. Everaerd;Ary A. Haspels

  • Endogenous cortisol level interacts with noradrenergic activation in the human amygdala

    Anda H. van Stegeren;Oliver T. Wolf;Walter Everaerd;Philip Scheltens

  • Vaginismus, a component of a general defensive reaction. an investigation of pelvic floor muscle activity during exposure to emotion-inducing film excerpts in women with and without vaginismus.

    J. van der Velde;E. Laan;W. Everaerd

  • Symptom Sensitivity and Sex Differences in Physical Morbidity: A Review of Health Surveys in the United States and the Netherlands

    Cécile M.T. Gijsbers van Wijk;Katja P. van Vliet;Annemarie M. Kolk;Walter Th. A. M. Everaerd

  • Sexual behavior and responsiveness to sexual stimuli following laboratory‐induced sexual arousal

    Stephanie Both;Mark Spiering;Walter Everaerd;Ellen Laan

  • Performance demand and sexual arousal in women.

    Ellen Laan;Walter Everaerd;Marie-Thérèse Van Aanhold;Marlene Rebel

  • The relationship between involuntary pelvic floor muscle activity, muscle awareness and experienced threat in women with and without vaginismus.

    Janneke van der Velde;Walter Everaerd

  • Immediate and prolonged effects of cortisol, but not propranolol, on memory retrieval in healthy young men

    Marieke S. Tollenaar;Bernet M. Elzinga;Philip Spinhoven;Walter Everaerd

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen Laan
Ellen Laan University of Amsterdam
Philip Spinhoven
Philip Spinhoven Leiden University
Bernet M. Elzinga
Bernet M. Elzinga Leiden University
Merel Kindt
Merel Kindt University of Amsterdam
Jack van Honk
Jack van Honk Utrecht University
Meredith L. Chivers
Meredith L. Chivers Queen's University
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Erick Janssen
Erick Janssen KU Leuven
Koen B.E. Böcker
Koen B.E. Böcker Utrecht University
James G. Pfaus
James G. Pfaus Charles University

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