Processing Bias for Sexual Material: The Emotional Stroop and Sexual Offenders
Processing Bias for Sexual Material: The Emotional Stroop and Sexual Offenders
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性材料的加工偏见：情感斯特鲁普和性犯罪者
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2004
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M. Waterman
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Paul Smith;M. Waterman
作为一个正在进行的研究项目的一部分，我们检查了法医和非法医参与者（n = 10性犯罪者，n = 10暴力犯罪者，n = 10非暴力犯罪者和n = 13本科生）的信息处理偏见。Stroop任务的计算机化版本表明，被判有性犯罪和暴力犯罪的罪犯在识别与性犯罪有关的颜色名称的速度上明显慢于本科生（性犯罪者表现出最大的干扰偏见）。此外，暴力犯罪者和暴力性犯罪者对攻击性词汇的加工偏见也很明显，而非暴力性犯罪者对攻击性词汇的加工偏见不明显。具体来说，与异性恋强奸犯相比，犯有猥亵侵犯罪的恋童癖者表现出不同的反应特征。这些发现表明，评估重要材料信息处理偏差的测试也可能被证明是法医群体中有用的评估工具。
As part of an ongoing research project we examined information-processing biases in forensic and nonforensic participants (n = 10 sex offenders, n = 10 violent offenders, n = 10 nonviolent offenders, and n = 13 undergraduates). A computerised version of the Stroop task demonstrated that offenders convicted of both sexual and violent offences were significantly slower than undergraduates to color-name words relating to sexual offending (with sex offenders demonstrating the greatest interference bias). Furthermore, processing bias was also evident for aggression words in violent offenders and violent sexual offenders but not in nonviolent sexual offenders. Specifically, paedophiles convicted of indecent assault presented different response profiles compared to heterosexual rapists. These findings suggest that tests that assess information processing bias for salient material may also prove useful as an assessment tool within forensic populations.