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Comparing two implicit cognitive measures of sexual interest: A pictorial modified Stroop task and the Implicit Association Test

Ó Ciardha, Caoilte and Gormley, Michael (2010) Comparing two implicit cognitive measures of sexual interest: A pictorial modified Stroop task and the Implicit Association Test. In: Thornton, David and Laws, D.R., eds. Cognitive approaches to the assessment of sexual interest in sexual offenders. Wiley series in forensic clinical psychology . Wiley, Chichester, UK, pp. 177-201. ISBN 978-0-470-05784-1. (doi:10.1002/9780470747551.ch9) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:28144)

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Abstract

(from the introduction) In this chapter, C. Ó Ciardha and M. Gormley demonstrate how the modified Stroop task can be used to assess the direction of sexual interests. They use images instead words so that the task becomes to name the colour of an image rather than of a word. Images can then be used to depict either male adults, female adults, male children or female children. They demonstrate that responses to images of adults in this modified Stroop task could be used to identify adult males' gender preference. This chapter is also of interest because it reports research suggesting that combining IAT and Stroop methods can give more powerful identification of sexual interests.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1002/9780470747551.ch9
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: Caoilte O Ciardha
Date Deposited: 08 Sep 2011 11:07 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:06 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/28144 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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