Suchy Yana, Whittaker Wilson J, Strassberg Donald S, Eastvold Angela
University of Utah, Department of Psychology, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0251, USA.
Sex Abuse. 2009 Mar;21(1):93-110. doi: 10.1177/1079063208326930.
The present study compared facial and prosodic affect recognition abilities among pedophilic and nonpedophilic child molesters and community-dwelling controls. Pedophilic child molesters are characterized by primary sexual interest in prepubescent children, whereas nonpedophilic child molesters are characterized by offending against children despite being primarily sexually attracted to adults. The results showed that nonpedophilic child molesters made more errors in recognizing both facial and prosodic affect, performing more poorly than both controls and pedophilic child molesters. These findings are consistent with greater psychopathic tendencies among nonpedophilic molesters as well as with prior findings of smaller amygdala volume among child molesters.
本研究比较了恋童癖和非恋童癖儿童性侵犯者以及社区对照组在面部表情和韵律情感识别能力方面的差异。恋童癖儿童性侵犯者的主要特征是对青春期前儿童有性兴趣，而非恋童癖儿童性侵犯者的特征是尽管主要被成年人吸引，但仍对儿童实施犯罪。结果表明，非恋童癖儿童性侵犯者在识别面部表情和韵律情感方面犯的错误更多，表现比对照组和恋童癖儿童性侵犯者都要差。这些发现与非恋童癖性侵犯者中更大的精神病态倾向一致，也与先前关于儿童性侵犯者杏仁核体积较小的研究结果一致。
