Pupillometric and personality test score differences of female aggressing pedophiliacs and normals

Abstract

A group of 10 incarcerated female-aggressing pedophiliacs was compared with a control group of inmates by their responses to a sexual deviancy scale and by pupillometrics. It was found that on the sexual deviance scale, using a cutting score of 43, only one individual out of the 20 involved was misidentified. The results also indicated significant differences in the pupil change responses between the two groups. The nondeviate males consistently dilated to pictures of adult females and the female-aggressing pedophiliacs did not dilate or constrict to the same pictures. Female-aggressing pedophiliacs, on the other hand, most often showed pupil dilation to pictures of immature females, while only half of the nondeviate males showed pupil dilation to the pictures of a immature females. It appears, on the basis on this study, that both instruments used have significant value in identifying incarcerated female-aggressing pedophiliacs from other incarcerated but nondeviate males. © 1971, Psychonomic Journals, Inc.. All rights reserved.