Joanne-Lucine Rouleau

• Université de Montréal

Being sexually aroused can lead to a stronger propensity to engage in sexual risk-taking and sexually coercive behaviors possibly by narrowing attentional focus toward immediate gratification rather than long-term consequences. The goal of this paper was to investigate the attentional processes implicated in sexual self-regulation failure and its m...

In the area of sexual offending, the presence of deviant sexual interests is a central feature of both clinical and theoretical understandings. At the theoretical level, many influential theories of sexual offending consider the presence of deviant sexual interests as a key element in explaining both sexual offending behaviors onset and reoffending...

Response inhibition is defined as one’s ability to voluntarily override an automatic or already initiated action when that action is inappropriate. Although a core mechanism of self-control, its association with sexual coercion perpetration and the impact of erotic cues on its exertion remain unknown. According to a domain-specific perspective on i...

Introduction: The use of sexual coercion by university students is a prevalent and serious phenomenon. Studies have indicated that insecure attachment (i.e., attachment anxiety and avoidance) is related to sexual coercion perpetration, but the mechanisms explaining this association remain misunderstood. Negative urgency, which refers to the tendenc...

Introduction: The use of sexual coercion by university students is a prevalent and serious phenomenon. Studies have indicated that insecure attachment (i.e., attachment anxiety and avoidance) is related to sexual coercion perpetration, but the mechanisms explaining this association remain misunderstood. Negative urgency, which refers to the tendenc...

Penile plethysmography (PPG) is a measure of sexual interests that relies heavily on the stimuli it uses to generate valid results. Ethical considerations surrounding the use of real images in PPG have further limited the content admissible for these stimuli. To palliate this limitation, the current study aimed to combine audio and visual stimuli b...

Self-reported impulsivity has been found to predict the perpetration of sexual coercion in both sexual offenders and male college students. Impulsivity can be conceptualized as a generalized lack of self-control (i.e., general perspective) or as a multifaceted construct that can vary from one context to the other (i.e., domain-specific perspective)...

Résumé Une réponse sexuelle trop forte chez l’homme est associée à différents comportements sexuels lourds de conséquences, comme l’hypersexualité, la prise de risques sexuels et l’utilisation de stratégies coercitives. Toutefois, considérer la réponse sexuelle comme étant une pulsion « hors de contrôle » néglige de considérer les facteurs de régul...

A strong sexual response in men is associated to a variety of sexual behaviors that can result in severe consequences, like hypersexuality, sexual risk-taking, and sexual coercion. However, considering a sexual response as an “out of control” impulse fails to take into account regulation and inhibition factors involved in these types of behaviors....

Rational thinking and decision making are impacted when in a state of sexual arousal. The inability to self-regulate arousal can be linked to numerous problems, like sexual risk taking, infidelity, and sexual coercion. Studies have shown that most men are able to exert voluntary control over their sexual excitation with various levels of success. B...

Impulsivity has been identified as a risk factor for problematic sexual behaviors in adults such as conjugal infidelity, risky sexual behaviors, and sexual coercion. Impulsivity can be conceptualized as a relatively stable intrapersonal characteristic leading individuals to engage in reckless, inconsiderate actions. However, studies have suggested...

L’impulsivité a été identifiée comme un facteur de risque pour les comportements sexuels problématiques chez les adultes tel que l’infidélité conjugale, les comportements sexuels à risque et coercitifs. L’impulsivité peut être comprise comme une caractéristique intrapersonnelle multidimensionnelle relativement stable conduisant les individus à agir...

The presence of sexual interest toward minors is a central feature of our clinical and theoretical understanding of sexual offending against children. Although sexual arousal to prepubescent physical attributes is an essential dimension of deviant sexual interest, contemporary theories of sexual offending highlight the contribution of other dimensi...

There are concerns regarding the reliability, realism, and validity of stimulus materials used in the assessment of sexual interests among sex offenders. This article explores new stimulus materials for use with penile plethysmography (PPG) assessments. First, this paper presents a pilot study where undergraduate students rated virtual characters (...

The presence of sexual interest toward minors is a central feature of our clinical and theoretical understanding of sexual offending against children. Although sexual arousal to prepubescent physical attributes is an essential dimension of deviant sexual interest, contemporary theories of sexual offending highlight the contribution of other dimensi...

Penile plethysmography (PPG) is the gold standard for the assessment of sexual interests, especially among sex offenders of children. Nonetheless, this method faces some ethical limitations inherent to the nature of its stimuli and could benefit from the improvement of its ecological validity. The use of computer-generated characters (CGC) in virtu...

Penile plethysmography (PPG) is considered the most rigorous method for sexual interest assessment. Nevertheless, it is subject to faking attempts by participants, which compromises the internal validity of the instrument. To date, various attempts have been made to limit voluntary control of sexual response during PPG assessments, without satisfac...

Abstract The eye movements and penile responses of 20 male participants were recorded while they were immersed with virtual sexual stimuli. These participants were divided into two groups according to their capacity to focus their attention in immersion (high and low focus). In order to understand sexual self-regulation better, we subjected partici...

Child molesters (n=13) and sexually non-deviant subjects (n=29) were immersed with virtual characters depicting relevant sexual features while their sexual arousal and gaze behaviour were assessed to characterise their sexual preferences and intentional dynamics. Sexual arousal was measured using circumferential penile plethysmography (PPG). Gaze b...

This chapter presents research that is laying a foundation for new simulation applications that promise learning-oriented treatments for mental health conditions. After presenting background on their technologies and measurement techniques, the authors describe experimental applications of this approach. Analysis of negative and positive responses...

This paper presents two studies pertaining to the use of virtual characters applied in clinical forensic rehabilitation of sex offenders. The first study is about the validation of the perceived age of virtual characters designed to simulate primary and secondary sexual character of typical adult and child individuals. The second study puts to use...

Sexual arousal and gaze behavior dynamics are used to characterize deviant sexual interests in male subjects. Pedophile patients and non-deviant subjects are immersed with virtual characters depicting relevant sexual features. Gaze behavior dynamics as indexed from correlation dimensions (D2) appears to be fractal in nature and significantly differ...

This chapter presents research that is laying a foundation for new simulation applications that promise learning-oriented treatments for mental health conditions. After presenting background on their technologies and measurement techniques, the authors describe experimental applications of this approach. Analysis of negative and positive responses...

This paper presents preliminary results about the use of virtual characters, penile plethysmography and gaze behaviour dynamics to assess deviant sexual preferences. Pedophile patients’ responses are compared to those of non-deviant subjects while they were immersed with virtual characters depicting relevant sexual features.

With the recent realization of the extent to which adolescents are committing sexual offenses, researchers have attempted to identify valid and reliable assessment instruments for this population. Some such assessment instruments (i.e., plethysmography, self-report) have met with criticism relative to their utility with juvenile offenders. The pres...

Virtual reality (VR), as a method to assess sexual preferences, is explored. Dynamics of the subjective point of view (POV), subjective affective state, and feeling of presence, as measured following the interaction with a virtual naked model, appear as promising ways to probe sexual preferences as expressed in immersion. Theoretical aspects of VR...

The sexual abuses described in this article are occurring so frequently that they constitute a public health problem. Superficially they appear to be quite dissimilar because they involve individuals of different ages, different settings, and different power relationships. Basic to each of them, however, is an absence of consent by the victim and t...

Outpatient paraphilic's sex guilt scores were compared to their self-reported number of paraphilic acts. Additionally, the relation between sex guilt and penile tumescence in response to deviant sexual stimuli were analyzed using a conversion score of penile tumescence (deviant sexual arousal divided by sexual arousal toward neutral stimuli). Sex g...

Outpatient paraphilic's sex guilt scores were compared to their self-reported number of paraphilic acts. Additionally, the relation between sex guilt and penile tumescence in response to deviant sexual stimuli were analyzed using a conversion score of penile tumescence (deviant sexual arousal divided by sexual arousal toward neutral stimuli). Sex g...

Erectile measures have proved to be a useful means of assessing sex offenders (paraphiliacs). However, subject characteristics may limit the validity of these measures. Sex guilt, a cognitive, dispositional measure, has been found to be a predictor of sexual behavior. The Mosher Sex Guilt Scale was administered to over 60 paraphiliacs seeking asses...

describe . . . the controversial findings of an eight-year longitudinal study of 561 male sexual assaulters who sought voluntary assessment and/or treatment for their paraphilic disorders (sexual assaults) at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis, and at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City inc...

The author analyses the patient's emotional reactions to his sexual problems and those of his partner. A first study is reported showing that feminists are more tolerant and supportive. A second study performed on diabetic males with sexual dysfunction shows that the psychological consequences of impotence are less important in the partners than in...

The author reviews the disorders of ejaculation: premature ejaculation delayed ejaculation and retarded ejaculation. She proposes behavioral treatments adapted to each disorder: single techniques provide most often excellent results.

The Chronic Illness Problem Inventory (CIPI) was used to assess level of psychosocial functioning in 89 patients with sickle cell disease. The results indicated that sickle cell patients have significant psychosocial distress in the areas of employment and finances, sleeping and eating, and performance of normal daily activities. Fear and anxiety r...

The psychiatric literature suggests that paraphiliacs can be expected to participate in only one type of deviant sexual behavior. Using self-reports gathered with assured confidentiality from 561 nonincarcerated paraphiliacs, we discovered that most paraphiliacs have had significant experience with as many as ten different types of deviant sexual b...

This article will present data gathered by the authors through structured clinical interviews of 561 paraphiliacs regarding demographic characteristics, frequency and variety of deviant sexual acts, and number and characteristics of victims. Results show that nonincarcerated sex offenders (1) are well educated and socioeconomically diverse; (2) rep...

The present study attempts to verify the relative efficacy of two forms of pre-exposure which are identical in content and parallel in mode of exposure (in vivo or videotape). These two forms of pre-exposure were given to 38 children, aged four to six years old, before their first dental visit. The results showed that all groups manifested relative...

focus on sexually aggressive behaviors that involve bodily touching and are carried out against the will of the victim categorization of sexually aggressive men / exhibitionism / frottage / pedophilia and incest / rape / sadism paraphiliac offender / denial of paraphilic arousal / evaluating paraphiliac offenders / psychophysiologic assessment...

The history of virtual reality (VR) spans some 50 years during which it has undergone major technological developments in computer science, electronics and human factors engineering. Interestingly, the history of sexual preferences assessment in sex offenders follows a parallel path, beginning in the end of the fifties with penile plethysmography (...

The impact of one's culture on daily activities is inescapable. That impact, whether conscious or not, must in some ways extend to the commission of crimes as well as victim reactions. This category includes citations beyond those about death rituals and includes references about criminal psychology, cultural studies, and forensic psychiatry. A gre...

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