Children induce an enhanced attentional blink in child molesters

Anthony Beech; E Kalmus; SP Tipper; J-Y Baudouin; V Flak; Glyn Humphreys

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Children induce an enhanced attentional blink in child molesters

Anthony Beech, E Kalmus, SP Tipper, J-Y Baudouin, V Flak, Glyn Humphreys

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The attentional blink (AB) is a robust phenomenon that has been consistently reported in the cognitive literature. The AB is found when two target images (T1, T2) are presented within 500 ms of each other and errors are induced on the perceptual report of T2. The AB may increase when T1 has some salience to the viewer. This study examined the effects of using pictures of children as T1 on the AB in a sample of child molesters. A larger AB emerged in this sample when T1was a picture of a child compared with when T1 was a picture of an animal. It is argued that this task may be potentially useful to assess child molesters' level of interest in children. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	397-402
Number of pages	6
Journal	Psychological Assessment
Volume	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013587
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2008

Keywords

rapid serial visual presentation time
cognitive paradigms
attentional blink
deviant sexual interest
child molesters

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