Diagnostic Accuracy of Eye Movements in Assessing Pedophilia

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1868-1882

  Fromberger, Peter ^a   Jordan, Kirsten ^a   Steinkrauss, Henrike ^a   von Herder, Jakob ^a   Witzel, Joachim ^b   Stolpmann, Georg ^a   Kröner Herwig, Birgit ^a   Müller, Jürgen Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Central State Forensic Psychiatric Hospital of Saxony Anhalt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment; Attention; Automatic processes; Diagnostic accuracy; Eye movements; Pedophilia; Pedophilic sexual preferences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BISEXUALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDOPHILIA; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL DEVIATION; SEXUALITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84863515628     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02754.x     Document Type: Letter

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