Publications by authors named "Banse R"

The current study examined the extent to which gender/sex preference moderated the role of cohabitation on incest avoidance in an online sample of 1,623 adults with at least one opposite-sex sibling. Consistent with previous research, we found that longer cohabitation with a sibling was associated with decreased sexual interest in sexual contact between hypothetical siblings. We extended the literature by finding that gender/sex preferences contribute significantly to our understanding of incest avoidance.

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Sibling sexual behaviour, despite historical and cross-cultural incest taboos and biologically driven incest avoidance, poses a persistent problem. We tested factors theorized to be associated with sibling incest in a cross-sectional online survey of 1,863 respondents with siblings mainly from North America and Germany. We found that 13% of participants reported engaging in sexual contact with a sibling, typically starting at the age of 10, and that step-siblings and half-siblings were more likely to engage in sibling incest than full siblings.

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Aims/background: In recent years, there has been an increased interested in the contribution of fathers to childbirth. In the present paper we explore whether the father's birth-related mindset (being either more natural or more medical) can predict the mother's labour and birth outcomes and whether the father's experience and evaluation of the birth can predict his psychological well-being after the birth.

Design/methods: We conducted a longitudinal study ( = 304 expecting fathers) spanning the first trimester of pregnancy up to six months after birth.

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Background: The aim of the present paper was to explore the role of partners for the stressful life events of birth and the transition to parenthood.

Methods: In a first prospective longitudinal study (N = 304 dyads) we tested whether relationship quality positively predicted fewer interventions during labor and birth, a more positive birth experience, and better well-being during the first six weeks after birth. In a second study we surveyed mothers (N = 980; retrospective quasi-experimental design) who had given birth during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 - some in the absence of their partners - to test the assumption that regardless of relationship quality, the presence of the partner was positively related to low-intervention births and the birth experience.

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Background: Different studies have shown that a patient's attachment correlates with the psychotherapy outcome. However, these findings are based on the traditional interview and paper and pencil attachment methods. Latency-based methods like the Implicit Association Test (IAT) have not yet been investigated in clinical attachment research, specifically in therapy outcome research.

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  • The research used Mousetracker software to analyze hand movements of participants making sexual interest-related decisions.
  • Three studies involved different samples, with findings showing that participants moved faster and more directly when responding to options aligned with their sexual preferences.
  • The results indicate that Mousetracking can effectively gauge sexual interest across various dimensions, including gender attraction and age-specific interests, suggesting potential for future investigations.
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Assessments based on reaction time and language-based interviews postulate that unconscious attachment processes be measured. Nevertheless, a possible empirical equivalence of these two approaches has not yet been investigated. To fill this void, the Adult Attachment Interview and the Implicit Association Test were implemented with a group of patients with panic disorder (n = 157, mean age = 29, SD = 2.

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Introduction: The "Dunkelfeld" project offers pharmacologic treatment and psychotherapy to self-referred pedophilic patients in an anonymous way.

Aim: To provide a re-assessment focusing on the crucial time × group interaction (ie, the treatment effect).

Methods: A recent study reported on the effectiveness of the "Dunkelfeld" program based on intermediate data of a treatment group (TG; n = 53) and a waiting-list control group (CG; n = 22).

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Background And Objectives: Cognitive models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) highlight the role of cognitive biases for the development of the disorder. One of these biases, an inflated sense of responsibility has been associated with higher anger scores and latent aggression on self-report scales, especially in patients with compulsive checking. Validity of self-report assessment is, however, compromised by inaccuracy, social desirability, and low metacognitive awareness of traits and behaviors in patients.

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Background: Married couples often share similar health-related characteristics and behaviors, including cigarette smoking status. Despite their rising popularity in the U.S.

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  • Researchers created a new experimental method called the cued pro- and antisaccade paradigm (CPAP) to study how sexual interest affects automatic eye movements in response to images.
  • In their study with 32 women and 25 men, participants reacted faster and made fewer mistakes when looking at sexually relevant images compared to irrelevant ones, but this effect was mainly observed in male participants.
  • The CPAP allows for a deeper understanding of how quickly and automatically people process sexual information, making it a useful tool for investigating both automatic and deliberate responses to sexual stimuli.
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Within the scope of judicial decisions, approaches to distinguish between true and fabricated statements have been of particular importance since ancient times. Although methods focusing on "prototypical" deceptive behavior (e.g.

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Consistent evidence exists for sexual interest in children in nonclinical/nonforensic male populations. However, prevalences for community men's self-reported sexual interest in children have been based on indiscriminate definitions including postpubescent individuals, age-restricted samples, and/or small convenience samples. The present research assessed men's self-reported sexual interest in children (including child prostitution and child sex tourism) on the community level and examined the link between strictly defined sexual fantasies and behaviors involving prepubescent children.

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  • The study aimed to validate a modified Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a method for measuring sexual orientation indirectly through response latencies.
  • It compared the reliability and validity of the IRAP against two established methods: the Choice Reaction Time task (CRT) and Viewing Time (VT) task, using a sample of 122 men (87 heterosexual, 35 gay).
  • Results indicated that both the IRAP and VT effectively predicted sexual orientation, showing good reliability and convergent validity, while the CRT failed to demonstrate any reliability or validity in measuring sexual orientation.
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  • The research examines the Aggressiveness-IAT, a tool designed to measure automatic aggressive self-concepts, and evaluates its psychometric properties to see how reliably it captures traits related to aggression.
  • A longitudinal study with 574 Austrian school children found that 20-30% of variance in IAT scores was stable over time, while 36-50% were influenced by specific situations.
  • The IAT scores were found to correlate with explicit measures of aggression but did not relate to unrelated factors like school achievement, suggesting important implications for its use in understanding aggression.
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The Implicit Association Test (IAT, Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998) was adapted to assess the automatically activated (implicit) self-concept of aggressiveness. In three studies the validity of the Aggressiveness-IAT (Agg-IAT) was supported by substantial correlations with self-report measures of aggressiveness. After controlling for self-report measures of aggressiveness, the Agg-IAT accounted for 9-15% of the variance of three different indicators of aggressive behavior across three studies.

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Individuals differ in the extent to which they are interested in sexualized violence, as displayed in the frequent but not ubiquitous sexual interest in consensual acts of violent sexual role play and violent pornographic media in the normal population. The present research sought to develop and validate a multi-method assessment battery to measure individual differences in the preference for sexualized violence. Three indirect measures (Implicit Association Test, Semantic Misattribution Procedure, Viewing Time) were combined in an online study with 107 men and 103 women.

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Previous research has shown that different configurations of the implicit self-concept of intelligence (iSCI) and the explicit self-concept of intelligence (eSCI) are consistently related to individuals' performance on different intelligence tests (Dislich etal., 2012). The results indicated that any discrepant configuration between the iSCI and the eSCI impairs performance.

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To aid risk assessment, management, and treatment planning it is essential to assess child sexual abusers' deviant sexual interests (DSI) and preferences (DSP) for sex with children. However, measurement of DSI/DSP is fraught with psychometric problems. In consequence, research interest has shifted to latency-based indirect measures as a measurement approach to complement self-report and physiological assessment.

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Sexual narcissism (SN) has recently been proposed to be a specific risk factor for the perpetration of sexual coercion based on both self-reports of previous behavior and self-estimated likelihood of engaging in acts of sexual violence. To explore one of the potential underlying mechanisms of SN, we tested whether for highly sexually narcissistic males (measured with the German language version of the Sexual Narcissism Scale) the subtle priming of sexual concepts would evoke aggressive behavior in a standard measure of aggressive behavior, the Taylor Aggression Paradigm. Results showed that only for sexually narcissistic men did a subtle priming with mildly erotic words lead to an increase in shock volumes administered to the alleged competitor on this task.

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The Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP; Payne, Cheng, Govorun, & Stewart, 2005) is an important tool in implicit social cognition research, but little is known about its underlying mechanisms. This paper investigates whether, as the name implies, affect-based processes really underlie the AMP. We used a modified AMP that enabled us to separate the influence of affective and nonaffective processes.

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