Many sexual minority individuals experience an early phase of ______ during which they recognize a sense of differentness from others.

______ refers to the enduring pattern of cognitive, motivational, and behavioral tendencies that regulates the experience, conduct, and expression of sexuality.

Biologically speaking, girls and boys tend to display differences in temperament early in infancy, with boys showing higher ______ and girls showing higher ______.

Claims like, “a mother’s intuition is always right,” reflect ______.

Examples of passionate same-sex friendships growing into feelings of sexual desire support which theory of sexual orientation?

Researchers today have a strong understanding of why people identify as cisgender, transgender, or genderqueer, straight, gay, bisexual, pansexual, or asexual.

Stereotyped, cognitive representations of the sequence of events and behaviors that occur during dates are called ______.

What shift in views toward sexuality occurred in the mid-1800s?

Openly expressing emotions is more or less acceptable across different cultures because they have different ______.

Sex-based harassment tends to be more common and less harshly punished in individualistic, Western cultures.