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Los violadores y los que abusan de niños comparten un bajo nivel de actualización ejecutiva pero no de razonamiento fluido [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Research findings suggest that sex offenders show worse performance than the general population in neuropsychological tests. Nevertheless, moderators such as age of the victim, use of antisocial control groups, and characteristics of administered ...
Colom, Roberto   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Pedophilia

open access: yes, 2022
Pedophilia is one of the most difficult topics of reflection in modern sexual ethics debates. The term refers to the disposition to be sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children. This is distinct from acting on the disposition by committing child sexual assault or rape, as evidenced by the existence of self-described “virtuous pedophiles” who abstain
openaire   +3 more sources

Considerations about pedophilia and child sexual abuse speeches: concepts and differentiations

open access: yesRevista Caribeña de Ciencias Sociales
The article discusses the confusion prevalent on social media between pedophilia as a mental disorder and the crime of child sexual abuse. The lack of distinction between individuals with pedophilic disorder and aggressors without such a disorder is ...
Laura Nunes Novaes   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Meeting a person with pedophilia: Attitudes towards pedophilia among psychology students: A pilot study

open access: yesCurrent Psychology, 2021
People with pedophilia (PWP) are highly stigmatized. Public opinion is strongly pre-consolidated – it is often assumed that every PWP commits child sex offenses. This presumption not only affects PWP negatively. Research suggests that this stigmatization
R. Heron, Lena Schwiekert, Julie Karsten
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How Do They Feel? Processing Others’ Emotions in Second Language Discourse

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Emotion that is implied rather than literally expressed requires the processing of literal and pragmatic information. Processing multiple information types is an easy, fast process in the first language (L1) but can be costlier in a second language (L2), especially when emotional content is involved.
Andrea González‐García Aldariz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A compositional explanatory theory of pedophilia

open access: yesAggression and Violent Behavior, 2021
A key problem associated with adequate knowledge generation in pedophilia is that theories and studies predominantly examine abusive pedophilia. Acting abusively in relation to children—even where pedophilia is present—is likely to involve a different ...
Theresa A. Gannon
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The characteristics of sexual abuse in sport: A multidimensional scaling analysis of events described in media reports [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Most research on sexual abuse has been conducted within family settings (Fergusson & Mullen, 1999). In recent years, following several high profile convictions and scandals, research into sexual abuse has also encompassed institutional and community ...
Acosta V. A.   +28 more
core   +1 more source

Navigating Unconditional Positive Regard: Counsellors' Perspectives on Client Disclosures of Child Sexual Abuse Offending

open access: yesCounselling and Psychotherapy Research, Volume 26, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective This study explores counsellors' perceptions of working with clients who disclose thoughts regarding, or experience of perpetrating, sexual abuse of a child. Counselling of such clients is often framed as emotionally draining, distressing and a challenge for the core conditions of a productive therapeutic relationship, specifically ...
Abigail Pustkowski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Crossing the Line’: Child Protection and Welfare Managers' and Social Workers' Experiences of Social Media, Online and Digital Abuse and Harassment in Ireland

open access: yesChild Abuse Review, Volume 35, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Users of child protection social work and/or their families are fully entitled to express their dissatisfaction with the professional or service through both formal and informal channels. Fair criticism and dissatisfaction can sometimes, however, escalate and cross the line into violence, harassment and abuse (VHA).
Amy Bradley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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