Universität zu Köln

Imhoff, Roland ORCID: 0000-0003-0807-463X (2015). Punitive Attitudes Against Pedophiles or Persons With Sexual Interest in Children: Does the Label Matter? Arch. Sex. Behav., 44 (1). S. 35 - 45. NEW YORK: SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS. ISSN 1573-2800

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Abstract

In the present research, we addressed the question of whether people harbor punitive attitudes against individuals sexually interested in children even if no sexual offense is mentioned and whether this effect is amplified by the clinical label pedophilia. In two online studies (total N = 345), participants rated the extent to which they saw individuals sexually interested in children as necessarily committing child sexual abuse (dangerousness), responsible for their sexual interest (intentionality), and clinically disordered (deviance) before judging their endorsement of means of punishment (punitive attitudes). Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions in which either the pedophilia label or the descriptive term sexual interest in (prepubescent) children was included in all items. Across both studies, results showed high degrees of punitive attitudes against sexually deviant men, an effect that was particularly pronounced if the pedophilia label was present. Whereas this was only latently observable in Study 1 (concealed by a suppression effect of reduced ascriptions of intentionality), in Study 2 no such suppression was observed. Unlike any other stigma we know of, punitive attitudes against pedophiles were associated positively with social desirability, suggesting that participants saw it as particularly socially desirable to condemn someone based on their deviant sexual interest.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Imhoff, Roland UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-463X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-417935
DOI:	10.1007/s10508-014-0439-3
Journal or Publication Title:	Arch. Sex. Behav.
Volume:	44
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 35 - 45
Date:	2015
Publisher:	SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1573-2800
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STIGMA; DEFINITIONS Multiple languages Psychology, Clinical; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/41793