Heterosocial Perception in Child Molesters and Rapists
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1995
Keywords
sexual offenders, heterosocial perception
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02227861
Abstract
This study was designed to investigate child molesters' and rapists' perceptions of women's affect and sexual desire in first-date situations. Videotaped presentations of heterosexual couples in first-date situations were presented to 18 heterosexual child molesters, 9 homosexual child molesters, 25 rapists, 27 nonviolent non-sex offenders, and 30 violent non-sex offenders. For each videotaped segment, subjects categorized the woman's affect as rejecting, bored, neutral, friendly, or romantic and estimated how much sexual activity she desired after the date. Heterosexual child molesters, relative to their control group (nonviolent nonsex offenders), reported lower estimates of sexual desire when the women exhibited friendly and romantic affect. Heterosexual molesters also reported lower estimates of sexual desire and exhibited poorer categorization of affect relative to violent non-sex offenders when the women displayed romantic affect. Rapists did not show predicted affect-categorization deficits and did not report higher estimates of women's sexual desire relative to their control group.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Cognitive Therapy and Research, v. 19, issue 6, p. 695-706
Scholar Commons Citation
Stahl, Sherin S. and Sacco, William P., "Heterosocial Perception in Child Molesters and Rapists" (1995). Psychology Faculty Publications. 887.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/887
