@article{ref1,
title="Implicit cognitive distortions and sexual offending",
journal="Sexual abuse: a journal of research and treatment",
year="2004",
author="Mihailides, Stephen and Devilly, Grant J. and Ward, Tony",
volume="16",
number="4",
pages="333-350",
abstract="This work develops and tests the semantic-motivation hypothesis of sexual offenders' implicit cognitions. This hypothesis posits that sexual offenders' cognitive distortions emerge at the interface between implicit motivation and cognition. The semantic-motivation hypothesis is used to guide the development of 3 implicit association tests (IATs). These IATs were used to test for the existence of 3 expected child sexual offender implicit cognitive distortions in child sexual offenders (&quot;children as sexual beings,&quot; &quot;uncontrollability of sexuality,&quot; and &quot;sexual entitlement-bias&quot;). Results showed that child sexual offenders had larger IAT effects than did mainstream offenders and male and female nonoffenders for the &quot;children as sexual beings&quot; and the &quot;uncontrollability of sexuality&quot; implicit theories. Child sexual offenders also had a larger IAT effect than male and female nonoffenders for the &quot;sexual entitlement-bias&quot; implicit theory. Implications for the semantic-motivation hypothesis are discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1079-0632",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}