@article{ref1,
title="Preliminary evidence for an automatic link between sex and power among men who molest children",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2005",
author="Kamphuis, Jan H. and De Ruiter, Corine and Janssen, Bas and Spiering, Mark",
volume="20",
number="11",
pages="1351-1365",
abstract="Understanding critical motivational processes of sexual offenders may ultimately provide important clues to more effective treatments. Implicit, automatic cognitive processes have received minimal attention; however, a lexical decision experiment revealed automatic links between the concepts of power and sex among participants who self-reported attraction to sexual aggression. The current study replicates this experiment with a group of male child molesters and forensic and analogue controls. Subliminally presented sex words elicited a facilitation effect for power words among child molesters only; that is, sex to power associations were evident, as well as a trend for the reverse. These results provide preliminary evidence for an automatic sex-power association in child molesters and may point to a crucial pathological link in the cognitive schemata of sex offenders. As well, the current study suggests that paradigms from cognitive psychology may contribute to multimodal (risk) assessment of sexual offenders.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/0886260505278719",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260505278719"
}