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Implicit cognitive distortions and sexual offending.

Stephen Mihailides1, Grant J Devilly, Tony Ward

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. spmihail@unimelb.edu.au

Sexual Abuse : a Journal of Research and Treatment
|November 25, 2004
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Child sexual offenders exhibit distinct implicit cognitive distortions related to viewing children as sexual beings and experiencing uncontrollable sexuality. These findings support the semantic-motivation hypothesis in understanding offender cognition.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Forensic Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Cognitive distortions are implicated in sexual offending.
  • The semantic-motivation hypothesis links implicit motivation and cognition to these distortions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the semantic-motivation hypothesis regarding sexual offenders' implicit cognitions.
  • To investigate specific implicit cognitive distortions in child sexual offenders.

Main Methods:

  • Development of three Implicit Association Tests (IATs) based on the semantic-motivation hypothesis.
  • Testing child sexual offenders, mainstream offenders, and nonoffenders using these IATs.

Main Results:

  • Child sexual offenders showed significantly larger IAT effects for "children as sexual beings" and "uncontrollability of sexuality" compared to other groups.

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  • Child sexual offenders also exhibited a larger IAT effect for "sexual entitlement-bias" than nonoffenders.

    • Conclusions:

    • The findings provide empirical support for the semantic-motivation hypothesis.
    • Implicit cognitions, specifically "children as sexual beings," "uncontrollability of sexuality," and "sexual entitlement-bias," are distinct in child sexual offenders.