TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Preliminary evidence for an automatic link between sex and power among men who molest children
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Kamphuis, Jan H.
A1  - De Ruiter, Corine
A1  - Janssen, Bas
A1  - Spiering, Mark
SP  - 1351
EP  - 1365
VL  - 20
IS  - 11
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260505278719
ID  - ref1
ER  -