| Abstract: | 10 19-33 yr old child molesters were each given 20 classical conditioning type aversion therapy sessions and 3 assessment (generalization) test sessions (before, after 10, and after 20 treatment sessions). Shock was the UCS. Larger skin conductance responses were made to child slides than to adult slides in all sessions. Penile circumference responses indicated a small positive shift in sexual preference in the assessment tests when averaged over Ss. Pre- and posttreatment semantic differential and slide-ranking sexual preference measures also showed increases in sexual preferences for adults relative to sexual preferences for children. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
