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Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction

a private nonprofit corporation affiliated with Indiana University, whose mission is to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction. It was founded in 1947 by Alfred Kinsey, who served as its first director and carried out much of his pioneering research into human sexual behavior there.

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March 16th 2025

symptom specificity

symptom specificity

a hypothesis stating that people with psychosomatic disorders display abnormal responses to stress in particular physiological systems. According to this hypothesis, a person’s complaints will center around a particular organ (e.g., the heart) and set of related symptoms (e.g., cardiovascular symptoms) rather than involving a variety of complaints about different organs or systems.