Regret Expression and Social Learning Increases Delay to Sexual Gratification.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Modification and prevention of risky sexual behavior is important to individuals' health and public health policy. This study employed a novel sexual discounting task to elucidate the effects of social learning and regret expression on delay to sexual gratification in a behavioral task.

Methods

Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers were assigned to hear one of three scenarios about a friend who engages in similar sexual behavior. The scenarios included a positive health consequence, a negative health consequence or a negative health consequence with the expression of regret. After reading one scenario, participants were asked to select from 60 images, those with whom they would have casual sex. Of the selected images, participants chose one image each for the person they

SUBMITTER: Quisenberry AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4539230 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature