James M. Cantor, PhD, CPsych

Associate Professor

Department of Psychiatry

University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine

 

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Refereed articles

 

 

Barbaree, H. E., Langton, C. M., Blanchard, R., & Cantor, J. M. (2009). Aging versus stable enduring traits as explanatory constructs in sex offender recidivism: Partitioning actuarial prediction into conceptually meaningful components. Criminal Justice and Behavior: An International Journal, 36, 443–465. DOI: 10.1177/0093854809332283

Blanchard, R., Lykins, A. D., Wherrett, D., Kuban, M. E., Cantor, J. M., Blak, T., Dickey, R., & Klassen, P. E. (2009). Pedophilia, hebephilia, and the DSM–V. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38, 335–350. DOI:10.1007/s10508-008-9399-9.

Cantor, J. M., Kabani, N., Christensen, B. K., Zipursky, R. B., Barbaree, H. E., Dickey, R., Klassen, P. E., Mikulis, D. J., Kuban, M. E., Blak, T., Richards, B. A., Hanratty, M. K., & Blanchard, R. (2008). Cerebral white matter deficiencies in pedophilic men. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 42, 167–183.  DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2007.10.013

Blanchard, R., Kolla, N. J., Cantor, J. M., Klassen, P. E., Dickey, R., Kuban, M. E., & Blak, T. (2007). IQ, handedness, and pedophilia in adult male patients stratified by referral source. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 19, 285–309.

Cantor, J. M., Kuban, M. E., Blak, T., Klassen, P. E., Dickey, R., & Blanchard, R. (2007). Physical height in pedophilia and hebephilia. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 19, 395–407. DOI: 10.1007/s11194-007-9060-5

Blanchard, R., Cantor, J. M., Bogaert, A. F., Breedlove, S. M., & Ellis, L. (2006). Interaction of fraternal birth order and handedness in the development of male homosexuality. Hormones and Behavior, 49, 405–414.

Blanchard, R., Kuban, M. E., Blak, T., Cantor, J. M., Klassen, P., & Dickey, R. (2006). Phallometric comparison of pedophilic interest in nonadmitting sexual offenders against stepdaughters, biological daughters, other biologically related girls, and unrelated girls. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 18, 1–14.

Cantor, J. M., Kuban, M. E., Blak, T., Klassen, P. E., Dickey, R., & Blanchard, R. (2006). Grade failure and special education placement in sexual offenders’ educational histories. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35, 743–751.

Seto, M. C., Cantor, J. M., & Blanchard, R. (2006). Child pornography offenses are a valid diagnostic indicator of pedophilia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 610–615.

Zucker, K. J., Mitchell, J. N., Bradley, S. J., Tkachuk, J., Cantor, J. M., & Allin, S. M. (2006). The Recalled Childhood Gender Identity/Gender Role Questionnaire: Psychometric properties. Sex Roles, 54, 469–483.

Cantor, J. M., Blanchard, R., Robichaud, L. K., & Christensen, B. K. (2005). Quantitative reanalysis of aggregate data on IQ in sexual offenders. Psychological Bulletin, 131, 555–568.

Cantor, J. M., Klassen, P. E., Dickey, R., Christensen, B. K., Kuban, M. E., Blak, T., Williams, N. S., & Blanchard, R. (2005). Handedness in pedophilia and hebephilia. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 447–459.

Cantor, J. M., Blanchard, R., Christensen, B. K., Dickey, R., Klassen, P. E., Beckstead, A. L., Blak, T., & Kuban, M. E. (2004). Intelligence, memory, and handedness in pedophilia. Neuropsychology, 18, 3–14.

Blanchard, R., Kuban, M. E., Klassen, P., Dickey, R., Christensen, B. K., Cantor, J. M., & Blak, T. (2003). Self-reported injuries before and after age 13 in pedophilic and non-pedophilic men referred for clinical assessment. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 32, 573–581.

Blanchard, R., Christensen, B. K., Strong, S. M., Cantor, J. M., Kuban, M. E., Klassen, P., Dickey, R., & Blak, T. (2002). Retrospective self-reports of childhood accidents causing unconsciousness in phallometrically diagnosed pedophiles. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 31, 511–526.

Cantor, J. M., Blanchard, R., Paterson, A. D., Bogaert, A. F. (2002). How many gay men owe their sexual orientation to fraternal birth order? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 31, 63–71.

Cantor, J. M., Binik, Y. M., & Pfaus, J. G. (1999). Chronic fluoxetine inhibits sexual behavior in the male rat: Reversal with oxytocin. Psychopharmacology, 144, 355–362.

Johnson, M. K., O’Connor, M., & Cantor, J. (1997). Confabulation, memory deficits, and frontal dysfunction. Brain and Cognition, 34, 189–206.

Keane, M. M., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Monti, L. A., Fleischman, D. A., Cantor, J. M., & Nolan, J. S. (1997). Intact and impaired conceptual memory processes in amnesia. Neuropsychology, 11, 59–69.

Pilkington, N. W., & Cantor, J. M. (1996). Perceptions of heterosexual bias in professional psychology programs: A survey of graduate students. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 27, 604–612.

Book chapters

 

 

Cantor, J. M., Blanchard, R., & Barbaree, H. E. (2009). Sexual disorders. In P. H. Blaney & T. Millon (Eds.), Oxford textbook of psychopathology (2nd ed.) (pp. 527–548). New York: Oxford University Press.

Blanchard, R., Cantor, J. M., & Robichaud, L. K. (2006). Biological factors in the development of sexual deviance and aggression in males. In H. E. Barbaree & W. L. Marshall (Eds.), The juvenile sex offender (2nd ed., pp. 77–104). New York: Guilford.

Binik, Y. M., Cantor, J., Ochs, E., & Meana, M. (1997). From the couch to the keyboard: Psychotherapy in cyberspace. In S. Kiesler (Ed.), Culture of the internet (pp. 71–100). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Newsletters, reviews, editorials

 

 

Barbaree, H. E., & Cantor, J. M. (2009). Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment Performance indicators for 2007. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 21, 3–5.

Cantor, J. M. (2008). MRI research on pedophilia: What ATSA members should know. ATSA Forum, 20(4), 6–10. [link] http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/atsa/issues/2008-09-29/4.html

Zucker, K. J., & Cantor, J. M. (2008). The Archives in the era of online first ahead of print [Editorial]. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37, 512–516. DOI:10.1007/s10508-008-9355-8.

Barbaree, H. E., & Cantor, J. M. (2008). Performance indicators for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 20, 3–4. DOI:  10.1177/1079063208316694

Zucker, K. J., Bradley, S. J., Own-Anderson, A., Kibblewhite, S. J., & Cantor, J. M. (2008). Is gender identity disorder in adolescents coming out of the closet? Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 34, 287–290.

Zucker, K. J., & Cantor, J. M. (2006). The impact factor: The Archives breaks from the pack Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35, 7–9.

Zucker, K. J., & Cantor, J. M. (2005). The impact factor: “Goin’ up.” Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 7–9.

Cantor, J. M. (2003, Summer). Review of the book The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey. Newsletter of Division 44 of the American Psychological Association, 19(2), 6. [.pdf]

Cantor, J. M. (2003, Spring). What are the hot topics in LGBT research in psychology? Newsletter of Division 44 of the American Psychological Association, 19(1), 21–24.

Zucker, K., & Cantor, J. M. (2003). Editorial: The numbers game: The impact factor and all that jazz. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 32, 3–5.

Cantor, J. M. (2002, Fall). Male homosexuality, science, and pedophilia. Newsletter of Division 44 of the American Psychological Association, 18(3), 5–8. [html]

Cantor, J. M. (2000). Review of the book Sexual Addiction: An Integrated Approach. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 26, 107–109.

Presentations and abstracts

 

 

Cantor, J. M., Girard, T. A., & Lovett-Barron, M. (2008, November). The brain regions that respond to erotica: Sexual neuroscience for dummies.  Paper presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Cantor, J. M., Girard, T. A., Lovett-Barron, M., & Blak, T. (2008, July). Brain regions responding to visual sexual stimuli: Meta-analysis of PET and fMRI studies. Abstract and poster presented at the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, Leuven, Belgium.

Lykins, A. D., Blanchard, R., Cantor, J. M., Blak, T., & Kuban, M. E. (2008, July). Diagnosing sexual attraction to children: Considerations for DSM-V. Poster presented at the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, Leuven, Belgium.

Barbaree, H., Langton, C., Blanchard, R., & Cantor, J. M. (2007, October). The role of age-at-release in the evaluation of recidivism risk of sexual offenders. Paper presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, San Diego.

Cantor, J. M., Blak, T., Kuban, M. E., Klassen, P. E., Dickey, R. and Blanchard, R. (2007, October). Physical height in pedophilia and hebephilia. Poster presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, San Diego.

Cantor, J. M., Blak, T., Kuban, M. E., Klassen, P. E., Dickey, R. and Blanchard, R. (2007, August). Physical height in pedophilia and hebephilia. Abstract and poster presented at the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, Vancouver, Canada.

Puts, D. A., Blanchard, R., Cardenas, R., Cantor, J., Jordan, C. L., & Breedlove, S. M. (2007, August). Earlier puberty predicts superior performance on male-biased visuospatial tasks in men but not women. Abstract and poster presented at the Thirty-Third Meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, Vancouver, Canada.

Cantor, J. M., Kabani, N., Christensen, B. K., Zipursky, R. B., Barbaree, H. E., Dickey, R., Klassen, P. E., Mikulis, D. J., Kuban, M. E., Blak, T., Richards, B. A., Hanratty, M. K., & Blanchard, R. (2006, July). Pedophilia and brain morphology. Abstract and paper presented at the Thirty-Second Meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Seto, M. C., Cantor, J. M., & Blanchard, R. (2006, March). Child pornography offending is a diagnostic indicator of pedophilia. Paper presented at the 2006 American Psychology-Law Society Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Seto, M. C., Cantor, J. M., & Blanchard, R. (2005, November). Possession of child pornography is a diagnostic indicator of pedophilia. Poster presented at the Twenty-Forth Annual Conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, New Orleans.

Blanchard, R., Cantor, J. M., Bogaert, A. F., Breedlove, S. M., & Ellis, L. (2005, August). Interaction of fraternal birth order and handedness in the development of male homosexuality. Abstract and paper presented at the International Behavioral Development Symposium, Minot, North Dakota.

Cantor, J. M., & Blanchard, R. (2005, July). Quantitative reanalysis of aggregate data on IQ in sexual offenders. Abstract and poster presented at the Thirty-First Meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, Ottawa, Canada.

Blanchard, R., Cantor, J. M., Bogaert, A. F., Breedlove. S. M., & Ellis, L. (2005, July). Interaction of fraternal birth order and handedness in the development of male homosexuality. Abstract and poster presented at the Thirty-First Meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, Ottawa, Canada.

Cantor, J. M. (2003, August). Sex reassignment on demand: The clinician’s dilemma. Paper presented at the one hundred eleventh annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada.

Cantor, J. M., & Blanchard, R. (2003, July). The reported VIQ–PIQ differences in male sex offenders are artifactual? Abstract and poster presented at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, Bloomington, Indiana.

Cantor, J. M. (2003, June). Meta-analysis of VIQ–PIQ differences in male sex offenders. Paper presented at the Harvey Stancer Research Day, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Cantor, J. M. (2002, August). Gender role in autogynephilic transsexuals: The more things change… Paper presented at the One Hundred Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago.

Christensen, B. K., Cantor, J. M., Millikin, C., & Blanchard, R. (2002, February). Factor analysis of two brief memory tests: Preliminary evidence for modality-specific measurement. Poster presented at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Cantor, J. M., Christensen, B. K., Klassen, P. E., Dickey, R., & Blanchard, R. (2001, June). IQ, memory functioning, and handedness in male sex offenders. Paper presented at the Harvey Stancer Research Day, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Cantor, J. M., Blanchard, R., Paterson, A., Bogaert, A. (2000, June). How many gay men owe their sexual orientation to fraternal birth order? Abstract and poster presented at the International Behavioral Development Symposium, Minot, North Dakota.

Cantor, J. M., Binik, Y., & Pfaus, J. G. (1996, November). Fluoxetine inhibition of male rat sexual behavior: Reversal by oxytocin. Poster presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Society for Neurosciences, Washington, DC.

Cantor, J. M., Binik, Y., & Pfaus, J. G. (1996, June). An animal model of fluoxetine-induced sexual dysfunction: Dose dependence and time course. Poster presented at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Reproductive Behavior, Montréal, Canada.

Cantor, J. M., O’Connor, M. G., Kaplan, B., & Cermak, L. S. (1993, June). Transient events test of retrograde memory: Performance of amnestic and unimpaired populations. Poster presented at the Second Annual Science Symposium of the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society, Cambridge, MA.

Cantor, J. M., & Pilkington, N. W. (1992, August). Homophobia in psychology programs: A survey of graduate students. Paper presented at the Centennial Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 351 618)

Cantor, J. M. (1991, August). Being gay and being a graduate student: Double the memberships, four times the problems. Paper presented at the Ninety-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.

 

Last updated 9 October 2011