Viewing time measures and sexual interest: another piece of the puzzle

Gress, Carmen L. Z.

doi:10.1080/13552600500063666

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“…This basic finding by Rosenzweig (1942) has been systematically exploited in applied settings to infer sexual preferences from response latencies. Importantly, these latencies do not only differ reliably between individuals with varying sexual orientation (i.e., hetero-vs. homosexual men; Imhoff et al, 2010;Israel & Strassberg, 2007;Quinsey, Ketsetzis, Earls, & Karamanoukian, 1996;Zamansky, 1956), but also produce specific patterns for individuals with differing sexual age preferences (e.g., individuals with sexual interest in adults vs. children) (Abel, 1995;Abel, Huffman, Warberg, & Holland, 1998;Abel, Jordan, Hand, Holland, & Phipps, 2001;Banse, Schmidt, & Clarbour, 2010;Glasgow, Osborne, & Croxen, 2003;Gress, 2005;Harris, Rice, Quinsey, & Chaplin, 1996).…”

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Vicarious Viewing Time: Prolonged Response Latencies for Sexually Attractive Targets as a Function of Task- or Stimulus-Specific Processing

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The amount of time an individual spends gazing at images is longer if the depicted person is sexually appealing. Despite an increasing use of such response latencies as a diagnostic tool in applied forensic settings, the underlying processes that drive the seemingly robust effect of longer response latencies for sexually attractive targets remain unknown. In the current study, two alternative explanations are presented and tested using an adapted viewing time paradigm that disentangled task-and stimulus-specific processes. Hetero-and homosexual male participants were instructed to rate the sexual attractiveness of target persons differing in sex and sexual maturation from four experimentally assigned perspectives-heterosexual and homosexual perspectives for both sexes. This vicarious viewing time paradigm facilitated the estimation of the independent contributions of task (assigned perspective) and stimuli to viewing time effects.Results showed a large task-driven effect as well as a relatively smaller stimulus-based effect.This pattern suggests that, when viewing time measures are used for the assessment of sexual interest, it should be taken into consideration that response latency patterns can be biased by judging images from a selected perspective.

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Vicarious Viewing Time: Prolonged Response Latencies for Sexually Attractive Targets as a Function of Task- or Stimulus-Specific Processing

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“…The response latency of this judgment is unobtrusively measured. Across studies, there is a very robust finding that the response latency is longer for sexually attractive as compared to sexually unattractive targets and, in turn, viewing time measures can be used to discriminate between participants with respect to sexual preference (Flak, Beech, & Fisher, 2007;Kalmus & Beech, 2005;Laws & Gress, 2004), including homosexual and heterosexual men (Zamansky, 1956), heterosexual men and women (Israel & Strassberg, 2009;Quinsey, Ketsetzis, Earls, & Karamanoukian, 1996), and child sex offenders and non-offenders (e.g., Banse, Schmidt, & Clarbour, in press;Gress, 2005;Harris et al, 1996).…”

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Viewing Time Effects Revisited: Prolonged Response Latencies for Sexually Attractive Targets Under Restricted Task Conditions

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Sexually attractive stimuli are watched longer than unattractive stimuli. The processes underlying this robust and reliable viewing time effect are presently not well understood. In the present research comprising four experiments (total N = 250), four classes of potential explanations are proposed and the derived implications were experimentally tested. Contrary to explanations based on either deliberate delay or attentional adhesion to sexually attractive stimuli, prolonged response latencies were also found under restricted task conditions. Sexually preferred targets elicited longer response latencies in a self-paced evaluation task when stimulus pictures were presented for 750 ms (Exp. 1) or for 500 ms and followed by a pattern mask (Exp.2). Prolonged latencies for sexually preferred targets were also observed when sexual attractiveness was rated in a speeded binary decision task with a response window of 1000 ms (Exp. 3). Eventually, it was shown that the response latency effect in the speeded binary choice task was still preserved when only the heads of target individuals were presented instead of the bodies (Exp. 4). Mate identification and schematic processes are discussed as the remaining plausible mechanisms for prolonged response latencies for sexually attractive targets under restricted conditions.

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“…Viewing time (Abel, et al, 2004;Glasgow, Osborne, & Croxen, 2003;Gress, 2005;Harris, Rice, Quinsey, & Chaplin, 1996) asks participants to rate an image on some dimension (typically how attractive they find the individual depicted) while recording the time it takes to respond. This task, therefore, includes an explicit selfreport component (i.e.…”

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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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Viewing time measures and sexual interest: another piece of the puzzle

Cited by 44 publications

References 17 publications

Vicarious Viewing Time: Prolonged Response Latencies for Sexually Attractive Targets as a Function of Task- or Stimulus-Specific Processing

Vicarious Viewing Time: Prolonged Response Latencies for Sexually Attractive Targets as a Function of Task- or Stimulus-Specific Processing

Viewing Time Effects Revisited: Prolonged Response Latencies for Sexually Attractive Targets Under Restricted Task Conditions

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

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