Gray Nicola S, Brown Anthony S, MacCulloch Malcolm J, Smith Jennifer, Snowden Robert J
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
J Abnorm Psychol. 2005 May;114(2):304-8. doi: 10.1037/0021-843X.114.2.304.
Pedophiles are motivated to disguise their thoughts and feelings about their sexual beliefs and attraction toward children. New developments using implicit measures of associations have been successful in accessing socially stigmatic beliefs, even in cases in which the participant is resistant to this disclosure. Using an implicit measure, the authors show that pedophiles have an association between children and sex, whereas nonpedophilic offenders have an association between adults and sex. The task can therefore identify a core cognitive abnormality that may underpin some pedophilic deviant sexual behavior.
恋童癖者会试图掩饰他们对自身性观念以及对儿童的性吸引力的想法和感受。利用关联的隐性测量方法的新进展已成功获取到社会污名化的观念，即便在参与者抗拒披露此类信息的情况下也是如此。通过一种隐性测量方法，作者表明恋童癖者在儿童与性之间存在关联，而非恋童癖犯罪者则在成人与性之间存在关联。因此，该任务能够识别出一种可能是某些恋童癖异常性行为基础的核心认知异常。
