caa a22 4500 606230858 CHVBK 20210128101217.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0439-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0439-3 Imhoff Roland Sozialpsychologie: Social Cognition, University of Cologne, Richard-Strauss-Str. 2, 50931, Cologne, Germany aut Punitive Attitudes Against Pedophiles or Persons With Sexual Interest in Children: Does the Label Matter? [Elektronische Daten] [Roland Imhoff] 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. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Pedophilia nationallicence Sexual interest in children nationallicence Punitive attitudes nationallicence Stigma nationallicence Labeling theory nationallicence Suppression analysis nationallicence Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/1(2015-01-01), 35-44 0004-0002 44:1<35 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0439-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0439-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Imhoff Roland Sozialpsychologie: Social Cognition, University of Cologne, Richard-Strauss-Str. 2, 50931, Cologne, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/1(2015-01-01), 35-44 0004-0002 44:1<35 2015 44 10508