ArticleForensic sciences research2021
Eye tracking and child sexual offenders: a systematic review.
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- Assessing paedophilic sexual preferences in child sexual offenders using eye-tracking methods: an exploratory meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Using physiological biomarkers in forensic psychiatry: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Inferring Mental States from Brain Data: Ethico-legal Questions about Social Uses of Brain Data.The Hastings Center report · 2025Article
- Validation of the Revised Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests (SSPI-2) in Portugal.Sexual abuse : a journal of research and treatment · 2024Article
- What can the eyes tell us about atypical sexual preferences as a function of sex and age? Linking eye movements with child-related chronophilias.Forensic sciences research · 2023Review
- A new place for psychiatry among the forensic sciences.Forensic sciences research · 2021Article
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Abstract
Eye tracking is used in sexology to identify attractiveness and sexual desire indirectly. This systematic review summarizes results of works that have used eye tracking to analyse paedophilic interest in order to investigate its potential as a useful forensic tool. Six studies met the inclusion criteria. Five of them concerned a large study project and used approximatively the same sample of paedophiles (inpatients), forensic patients (without a sexual interest in children) and healthy controls to make comparisons between the three groups. One study added 11 self-declared paedophiles (outpatients) for a comparison between inpatient paedophiles, outpatient paedophiles and controls (healthy and forensic inpatients). One study compared a group of child sexual offenders with non-offenders. All studies used static pictures of male and female subjects at different pubertal stages. Some studies divided every picture into a different area of interest. Dependent variables used are fixation latency (early attention) and relative fixation time, (later attention). Each study identified significant differences between the paedophile group
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