The Implicit Association Test as a Measure of Sexual Interest

Cognitive Approaches to the Assessment of Sexual Interest in Sexual Offenders

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 101-123

  Gray, Nicola S ^a,b   Snowden, Robert J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERTAWE BRO MORGANNWG UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child sex IAT; Confusion of implicit attitudes with implicit measurement of attitudes; IAT, valuable addition to clinician's tool bag in future; Implicit association test (IAT) simultaneous sorting paradigm; Implicit association test as measure of sexual interest; Investigating sexual orientation using IAT; Psychometric properties of IAT; Psychophysiological measurements and cognitive methods; Service sex offender treatment program (SOTP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889445382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470747551.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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