Dawson David L, Barnes-Holmes Dermot, Gresswell David M, Hart Aidan J, Gore Nick J
Lincolnshire Partnership Trust, UK.
Sex Abuse. 2009 Mar;21(1):57-75. doi: 10.1177/1079063208326928.
Researchers have proposed that the cognitive distortions of sexual offenders are underpinned by a number of implicit cognitive processes termed implicit theories. Until recently, however, the implicit theory hypothesis has received little empirical support due to broader limitations with standard forensic assessment procedures. The current research aimed to determine whether a new assessment methodology, the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP), could provide further evidence for Ward and Keenan's (1999) children as sexual beings implicit theory. The results indicated that the IRAP was significantly more effective at identifying core implicit differences between sexual offenders against children and nonoffenders than a cognitive distortion questionnaire. Furthermore, although both groups demonstrated an overall response bias towards adults as sexual and children as nonsexual, this bias was significantly impaired in the sexual offender group. The findings are discussed in relation to previous implicit theory research and recommendations for the development of implicit methodologies are made.
研究人员提出，性犯罪者的认知扭曲是由一些被称为内隐理论的内隐认知过程所支撑的。然而，直到最近，由于标准法医评估程序存在更广泛的局限性，内隐理论假说几乎没有得到实证支持。当前的研究旨在确定一种新的评估方法，即内隐关系评估程序（IRAP），是否能为沃德和基南（1999）提出的儿童作为性存在的内隐理论提供进一步的证据。结果表明，与认知扭曲问卷相比，IRAP在识别针对儿童的性犯罪者与非犯罪者之间的核心内隐差异方面显著更有效。此外，尽管两组都表现出对成年人作为有性别的、儿童作为无性别的总体反应偏差，但这种偏差在性犯罪者组中明显受损。本文结合以往的内隐理论研究对这些发现进行了讨论，并对内隐方法的发展提出了建议。
