Comparing Two Implicit Cognitive Measures of Sexual Interest: A Pictorial Modified Stroop Task and the Implicit Association Test

Cognitive Approaches to the Assessment of Sexual Interest in Sexual Offenders

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 177-201

  Ciardha, Caoilte Ó ^a   Gormley, Michael ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Choice reaction time (CRT); IAT scoring algorithms; Implicit association test (IAT); Implicit cognitive measures of sexual interest pictorial modified Stroop task and IAT test; Influence of order on observed data; Modified Stroop task; Pictorial modified Stroop task; Stimuli used in Stroop task not real people

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889360235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470747551.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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