Devaluation of Safe Sex by Delay or Uncertainty: A Within-Subjects Study of Mechanisms Underlying Sexual Risk Behavior

• Published in: Archives of sexual behavior Vol. 46; no. 7; pp. 2131 - 2144
• Main Authors: Wongsomboon, Val, Robles, Elias
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.10.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Delay Discounting - physiology; Disease prevention; Female; Health behavior; HIV; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Male; Original Paper; Psychology; Public Health; Risk-Taking; Safe Sex - psychology; Sexual Behavior; Sexual Behavior - psychology; Sexually transmitted diseases; Social Sciences; STD; Within-subjects design; HIV/AIDS; Sexual risk behavior; STI; Attractiveness; Delay discounting; Probability discounting

The value of safe sex may be discounted based on contextual factors associated with an opportunity for sex. College students in a within-subjects study selected hypothetical sexual partners from a set of pictures and classified them based on attractiveness and estimated chance of having an sexually...