An inkblot for sexual preference: A semantic variant of the Affect Misattribution Procedure |
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Authors: | Roland Imhoff Alexander F. Schmidt Johanna Bernhardt Andreas Dierksmeier Rainer Banse |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of Bonn , Bonn, Germany rimhoff@uni-bonn.de;3. University of Bonn , Bonn, Germany |
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Abstract: | A newly developed Semantic Misattribution Procedure (SMP), a semantic variant of the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP), was used in three studies as an indirect measure of sexual interest. Using a known-group approach, homosexual men (Studies 1 and 2), heterosexual men (Studies 1 to 3) and heterosexual women (Study 3) were asked to guess the meaning of briefly presented Chinese ideographs as “sexual” or “not sexual”. The ideographs were preceded by briefly presented primes depicting male and female individuals of varying sexual maturity. As hypothesised, the frequency of “sexual” responses increased after priming with pictures of individuals of the preferred sex and increasing sexual maturation. The SMP showed satisfactory reliability and convergent validity as indicated by correlations with direct and two indirect measures of sexual interest. In two further studies, the hypothesised pattern was replicated whereas a standard AMP with the identical prime stimuli did not produce this result. The potential usefulness of semantic variants of the AMP is discussed. |
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Keywords: | Affect Misattribution Procedure Sexual preference Indirect measure Semantic priming |
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