Implicit Measurement of Sexual Associations in Child Sex Abusers

Brown, Anthony Scott; Gray, Nicola S.; Snowden, Robert Jefferson

doi:10.1177/1079063209332234

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“…While this study's findings suggest that the P-MST is not as effective as other tasks such as the IAT(e.g. Brown, et al, 2009) or CRT (e.g. Mokros, et al, 2010) in discriminating between offenders and non-offenders, further refinement of the task and administration with larger more defined samples may improve the measure's utility and ability to predict group membership.…”

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“…The Implicit Association Test (IAT; Banse, et al, 2010;Brown, Gray, & Snowden, 2009;Gray, Brown, MacCulloch, Smith, & Snowden, 2005;Mihailides, Devilly, & Ward, 2004;Nunes, Firestone, & Baldwin, 2007;Ó Ciardha & Gormley, 2009;Steffens, Yundina, & Panning, 2008) involves categorizing stimuli using two buttons. Each button has two concepts allocated to it.…”

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Using a Pictorial-Modified Stroop Task to Explore the Sexual Interests of Sexual Offenders Against Children

Ciardha

Gormley

2011

Sex Abuse

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The results of two studies are reported examining the utility of a pictorial modified Stroop task in the assessment of sexual interest in a sample of non offending participants and of sexual offenders against children. A mixed factorial design was adopted for both. Nine gay and twelve straight participants took part in the first study which found that participants typically had attentional bias on the pictorial modified Stroop task that was in line with their stated sexual interests. Twenty four sexual offenders against children and twenty four control participants took part in the second study. Again results indicated that the task was tapping into the participants' stated sexual interests. Furthermore extrafamilial offenders and offenders with an admitted sexual interest in children demonstrated the greatest mean bias for child stimuli relative to adult stimuli. A cautious interpretation of the results was recommended, given the sample size in the study, the heterogeneity of the sample, differences in cognitive speed among offenders and controls and other methodological caveats.

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Using a Pictorial-Modified Stroop Task to Explore the Sexual Interests of Sexual Offenders Against Children

Ciardha

Gormley

2011

Sex Abuse

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“…Novel methods attempting to examine cognitions and/or cognitive components of deviant sexual interest include Implicit Association Tests (Banse, Schmidt, & Clarbour, 2010;Brown, Gray, & Snowden, 2009;Gray, Brown, MacCulloch, Smith, & Snowden, 2005;Mihailides, Devilly, & Ward, 2004;Nunes, Firestone, & Baldwin, 2007;Ó Ciardha & Gormley, 2009;Steffens, Yundina, & Panning, 2008), choice reaction time tests (Giotakos, 2005;Gress, 2008;Mokros, Dombert, Osterheider, Zappalà, & Santtila, 2010), modified Stroop tasks (Ó Ciardha & Gormley, in press;Price & Hanson, 2007;Smith & Waterman, 2004), rapid serial visual presentation tasks Keown, Gannon, & Ward, 2010), Implicit Relational Assessment Procedures (Dawson, Barnes-Holmes, Gresswell, Hart, & Gore, 2009) and lexical decision tasks (Blake & Gannon, 2010;Keown, Gannon, & Ward, 2008) . The majority of these have focused on the simpler-relatively speaking-task of measuring sexual interest.…”

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The cognitive distortions of child molesters are in need of treatment

Ciardha

Gannon

2011

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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This paper forms the second part of a debate lead by Marshall, Marshall, and Kingston (2011) regarding the need to address so-called cognitive distortions in sexual offender treatment. In their paper, Marshall et al. argue that so-called cognitive distortions may not necessarily require intense and focussed attention or challenge throughout treatment. In evaluating Marshall et al."s arguments, we highlight some inherent differences in how both Marshall et al. and ourselves choose to define the term cognitive distortion. We surmise that these key definitional differences appear to account for many of the issues that we "debate". In particular, for example, Marshall et al. focus their arguments regarding cognitive distortions more explicitly upon excuses, denial and minimizations whereas we choose to focus upon schemas and higher order belief structures. Thus, we argue that the broadness and vagueness of the term cognitive distortion can lend itself to quite different interpretations and research foci. We offer some alternative views to Marshall et al."s position and advocate the consideration of cognitions with an aetiological role in offending. We conclude with some suggestions for future research and treatment.

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“…Whereas these new indirect technologies have been ubiquitously adopted within social psychology (e.g., Banaji, 2001;Olson & Fazio, 2006), they have also been greeted with enthusiasm in health psychology (e.g., Teachman, gapinski, Brownell, Rawlins, & Jeyaram, 2003;Von Hippel, Brener, & von Hippel, 2008), clinical psychology (Egloff & Schmukle, 2002), psychology and law (greenwald & Krieger, 2006), forensic psychology (Brown, gray & Snowden, 2009), and elsewhere throughout psychological science. There seem to be at least two central reasons why indirect procedures have been welcomed so broadly.…”

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