A modified Stroop task with sexual offenders: Replication of a study

Price, Shelley A.; Hanson, R. Karl

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“…However, this finding simply tells us that the adolescent sexual abusers took consistently longer across the word categories to color-name than the two control groups. This finding is consistent with the findings from the adult literature (Price, 2011;Price & Hanson, 2007;Smith & Waterman, 2004). The reasons why the sexual abusers (and offender groups more generally) consistently respond more slowly to the word stimuli in this task are unknown.…”

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“…These word sets were chosen because they have been used in the adult literature and we were interested in examining whether adolescents demonstrated similar responses. Price (2011) empirically derived the new word stimuli due to suggestions made in the adult literature that existing word lists were generally sexual in nature and may not represent a true reflection of the motives, thoughts or feelings experienced by sexual offenders (Price & Hanson, 2007). These new word stimuli (see Price (2011) for full description) were derived from the responses of workers and sexual abusers to question 6a of the Relapse Prevention Questionnaire (RPQ; Beckett, Fisher, Mann & Thornton, 1996): How would you describe who would be most at risk from you?…”

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“…One measure that has been used in the adult literature in attempts to tap into the psychological nature of deviant sexual interests with offenders is the emotional Stroop task (Price, 2011;Price & Hanson, 2007;Smith & Waterman, 2004). The emotional Stroop task uses differences in reaction times (RT) to emotional words and neutral or control words as a measure of interference in information-processing (Larsen, Mercer & Balota, 2006;Wentura, Rothermund, & Bak, 2000).…”

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“…The emotional Stroop task has been extensively tested in adult clinical samples, however, the research using the emotional Stroop task with adult and adolescent forensic samples is limited (Moradi et al, 1999;Price & Hanson, 2007). Research using the emotional Stroop task with offender samples has attempted to create sets of word stimuli that could be characterized as deviant in the sexual interest domain (Smith & Waterman, 2004), and more specifically that could be able to differentiate between subgroups of sexual abusers (Price, 2011;Price & Hanson, 2007).…”

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“…Research using the emotional Stroop task with offender samples has attempted to create sets of word stimuli that could be characterized as deviant in the sexual interest domain (Smith & Waterman, 2004), and more specifically that could be able to differentiate between subgroups of sexual abusers (Price, 2011;Price & Hanson, 2007). Efforts to do so are made in hopes of applying this tool as an alternative to traditional assessment methods for use with offender samples allowing researchers to evaluate the implicit attitudes of offenders without having to rely on their word.…”

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Measuring Deviant Sexual Interest in Adolescents Using the Emotional Stroop Task

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Adolescent sexual abusers are a heterogeneous group of offenders that often receive generic assessment and treatment services that are modeled on research findings from adult sex offender samples. The emotional Stroop task has been used to measure deviant sexual interest in adult samples. The purpose of the present study was to test whether the emotional Stroop task could also be used to assess deviant sexual interest in adolescent samples. Three groups of adolescents (a) sexual abusers (n = 24); (b) offending controls (n = 21); and (c) nonoffending controls (n = 21) completed two emotional Stroop tasks related to deviant sexual interest and tests of executive function. Adolescent sexual abusers were significantly slower to color-name some word stimuli than both adolescent offending controls and adolescent nonoffending controls. However, the task was unable to differentiate between the groups on most of the Stroop word categories. Very little research has been conducted with adolescent offender samples and the emotional Stroop task. Reaction time (RT) and Stroop bias outcome data for adolescent samples appear to be more unsystematic and weaker than has been observed in previous adult data. Based on potential difficulties with reading and development, the emotional Stroop task may not be a task suitable for measuring deviant sexual interest in adolescent samples.

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Indirect Measures of Deviant Sexual Interest

Bartels

Gray

Snowden

2016

The Wiley Handbook on the Theories, Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offending

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Latency‐ and accuracy‐based indirect measures have become of increasing interest to researchers and clinicians who work with sexual offenders. Most notably, they have been regarded as a useful tool for measuring deviant sexual interests, as they are thought to circumvent many of the issues associated with existing assessment tools. Thus, a number of tasks have been adapted indirectly assess deviant sexual interest and an increasing body of research detailing their utility and psychometric properties has amassed. This chapter examines this literature, providing a comprehensive overview that it is hoped will prove useful for both clinicians and researchers. Specifically, details on how each measure works, their underlying rationale, their validity and reliability, and their limitations are discussed. Suggestions for future research are also offered throughout the chapter.

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Attentional bias toward negative and positive pictorial stimuli and its relationship with distorted cognitions, empathy, and moral reasoning among men with intellectual disabilities who have committed crimes

Sadek

Daniel

Langdon

2020

Aggressive Behavior

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The aims of this study were to examine: (a) whether men with intellectual disabilities who have a history of criminal offending attend to affective pictorial stimuli in a biased manner, and (b) whether there is a relationship between an affective attentional bias and offense‐supportive cognitions, empathy, and moral reasoning. Forty‐six men with intellectual disabilities who had a documented history of criminal offending, and 51 men who also had intellectual disabilities, but no such history, were recruited and asked to complete a computer‐based dot‐probe task using affective pictorial stimuli with randomization, along with measures of distorted cognitions, empathy, and moral reasoning. Those with a history of criminal offending endorsed significantly more offense‐supportive cognitions, had significantly lower general empathy, and more “mature” moral reasoning, as well as a significant attentional bias toward affective pictorial stimuli. Attentional bias significantly predicted offense‐supportive cognitions, and vice versa, having controlled for offense history, and Full‐Scale IQ, but this was not the case for empathy or moral reasoning. While the findings require replication, interventions that aim to modify attention bias with this population should be tested.

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A modified Stroop task with sexual offenders: Replication of a study

Cited by 33 publications

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Measuring Deviant Sexual Interest in Adolescents Using the Emotional Stroop Task

Measuring Deviant Sexual Interest in Adolescents Using the Emotional Stroop Task

Indirect Measures of Deviant Sexual Interest

Attentional bias toward negative and positive pictorial stimuli and its relationship with distorted cognitions, empathy, and moral reasoning among men with intellectual disabilities who have committed crimes

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