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Sexual Scripts

Sexual Scripts is a sociocultural and cognitive schema that conceptualizes sexual behavior as socially learned, symbolically coded sequences of meanings and practices that organize how individuals interpret, experience, and enact sexuality within specific interpersonal and cultural contexts.

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Gender schema theory: A cognitive account of sex typing.

Sandra Lipsitz · Psychological Review · 1981 · 3.8K citations

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Sexual Behavior in the Human Female

Carle C. Zimmerman, Alfred C. Kinsey, W. B. Pomeroy et al. · Harvard Law Review · 1954 · 2.6K citations

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Sexual Behavior in the Human Female

Physical Therapy · 1954 · 1.7K citations

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Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality.

Judith Long Laws, John H. Gagnon, William Simon · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1975 · 1.6K citations

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Sexual scripts: Permanence and change

William Simon, John H. Gagnon · Archives of Sexual Behavior · 1986 · 1.4K citations

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  1. PJ
    Paul J. Wright

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

    13 publications · 673 citations

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  2. KN
    Kristen N. Jozkowski

    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, United States

    9 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. DH
    Debby Herbenick

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

    9 publications · 307 citations

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  4. ES
    E. Sandra Byers

    University of New Brunswick, Canada

    9 publications · 867 citations

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  5. JH
    John H. Gagnon

    State University of New York, United States

    9 publications · 4.1K citations

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Institutions

793

  1. Indiana University Bloomington

    Bloomington, United States

    23 h-index

    77 publications

    5K citations

  2. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    19 h-index

    32 publications

    2.2K citations

  3. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    16 h-index

    33 publications

    3.7K citations

  4. Indiana University

    Bloomington, United States

    14 h-index

    29 publications

    2.9K citations

  5. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    14 h-index

    26 publications

    768 citations

  6. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    13 h-index

    22 publications

    1.7K citations

  7. University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

    Fayetteville, United States

    13 h-index

    19 publications

    2.1K citations

  8. University of New Brunswick

    Fredericton, Canada

    11 h-index

    20 publications

    1.4K citations

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  1. Archives of Sexual Behavior

    79 publications · 6.4K citations

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  2. The Journal of Sex Research

    68 publications · 6.7K citations

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  3. Sex Roles

    37 publications · 2.6K citations

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  4. Sexuality & Culture

    40 publications · 1.6K citations

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  5. Sexualities

    27 publications · 1.3K citations

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