@article {Leue:August 2008:0007-1269:361,
	author = "Leue, Anja",
	author = "Brocke, Burkhard",
	author = "Hoyer, Jurgen",
	title = "Reinforcement sensitivity of sex offenders and non-offenders: An experimental and psychometric study of reinforcement sensitivity theory",
	journal = "British Journal of Psychology",
	volume = "99",
	year = "August 2008",
	abstract = "This study tested predictions of Gray's Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) in subgroups of sex offenders and male non-offenders using an experimental choice task consisting of a reward and a non-reward phase. In addition, RST-related psychometric measures were used. Both experimental and psychometric data were of interest to determine whether sex offenders could be reliably differentiated from non-offenders. Paraphilic (<I>N</I>=50) and impulse control-disordered (<I>N</I>=48) sex offenders showed greater sensitivity to continuous reward than male non-offenders (<I>N</I>=51). Impulse control-disordered sex offenders showed less behavioural adaptation under non-reward than both paraphilic sex offenders and male non-offenders. In addition, reward sensitivity, rash-spontaneous impulsivity, and anxiety measures discriminated sex offenders from male non-offenders. The results suggest that reinforcement sensitivity is a promising personality trait for differentiating subgroups of sex offenders from non-offenders. The experimental and psychometric results illustrate that predictive accuracy in forensic settings could be improved by combining several types of data.",
	pages = "361-378(18)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpsoc/bjp/2008/00000099/00000003/art00006"
	doi = "doi:10.1348/000712607X228519"
}