Judgment of age and attractiveness in a paired comparison task: Testing a picture set developed for diagnosing paedophilia

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 323-334

  Mokros, Andreas ^a   Butz, Matthias ^a   Dombert, Beate ^a   Santtila, Pekka ^b   Bäuml, Karl Heinz ^a   Osterheider, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIRED COMPARISON TASK; PEDOPHILIA; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RESPONSE TIME; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79957895311     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: 20448333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532510X514104     Document Type: Article

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