Intelligence, Memory, and Handedness in Pedophilia

Neuropsychology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-14

  Cantor, James M ^a   Blanchard, Ray ^a,b   Christensen, Bruce K ^a,b   Dickey, Robert ^a,b   Klassen, Philip E ^a,b   Beckstead, A Lee ^a   Blak, Thomas ^a   Kuban, Michael E ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIEF VISUOSPATIAL MEMORY TEST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EDINBURGH HANDEDNESS INVENTORY; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOPKINS VERBAL LEARNING TEST; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDOPHILIA; PENIS ERECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECALL; SEXUAL CRIME;

ADULT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PEDOPHILIA; PENILE ERECTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRESSION; SEX OFFENSES; VERBAL LEARNING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0842346579     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.18.1.3     Document Type: Article

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