Trial reportJournal of experimental psychology. General2014
Theoretically motivated interventions for reducing sexual risk taking in adolescence: a randomized controlled experiment applying fuzzy-trace theory.
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- Shared Components of Worldwide Successful Sexuality Education Interventions for Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce risk for sexually transmitted infections in adolescents: A meta-analysis of trials, 2008-2016.PloS one · 2018Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Positive Youth Development Interventions: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2017Pooled it
- School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- The effect of a supplementary ('Gist-based') information leaflet on colorectal cancer knowledge and screening intention: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2015Trial
- A New Look at Vaccination Behaviors and Intentions: The Case of Influenza.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Using Natural Language Processing Methods to Build the Hypersexuality in Bipolar Reddit Corpus: Infodemiology Study of Reddit.JMIR infodemiology · 2025Article
- Dual-systems and Fuzzy-trace Theory Predictions of COVID-19 Risk Taking in Young Adults.Decision (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Adolescent Preferences for a Pediatric Primary Care-based Sexually Transmitted Infection and HIV Prevention Intervention.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- Critical tests of fuzzy trace theory in brain and behavior: uncertainty across time, probability, and development.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Supporting Health and Medical Decision Making: Findings and Insights from Fuzzy-Trace Theory.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2022Article
- Adapting a Theoretically-Based intervention for underserved clinical populations at increased risk for hereditary Cancer: Lessons learned from thePreventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- How Fuzzy-trace Theory Predicts Development of Risky Decision Making, with Novel Extensions to Culture and Reward Sensitivity.Developmental review : DR · 2021Article
- Viruses, Vaccines, and COVID-19: Explaining and Improving Risky Decision-making.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2021Article
- Pairing facts with imagined consequences improves pandemic-related risk perception.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- "I Matter, I Learn, I Decide": An Impact Evaluation on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Rights to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy.The journal of primary prevention · 2021Article
- A scientific theory of gist communication and misinformation resistance, with implications for health, education, and policy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Review
- Making a Case for Integrating Evidence-Based Sexual Risk Reduction and Mental Health Interventions for Adolescent Girls.Issues in mental health nursing · 2019Article
- Brain activation covaries with reported criminal behaviors when making risky choices: A fuzzy-trace theory approach.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2018Article
- When Irrational Biases Are Smart: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory of Complex Decision Making.Journal of Intelligence · 2018Article
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Abstract
Fuzzy-trace theory is a theory of memory, judgment, and decision making, and their development. We applied advances in this theory to increase the efficacy and durability of a multicomponent intervention to promote risk reduction and avoidance of premature pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Seven hundred and thirty-four adolescents from high schools and youth programs in 3 states (Arizona, Texas, and New York) were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 curriculum groups: RTR (Reducing the Risk), RTR+ (a modified version of RTR using fuzzy-trace theory), and a control group. We report effects of curriculum on self-reported behaviors and behavioral intentions plus psychosocial mediators of those effects: namely, attitudes and norms, motives to have sex or get pregnant, self-efficacy and behavioral control, and gist/verbatim constructs. Among 26 outcomes, 19 showed an effect of at least 1 curriculum relative to the control group: RTR+ produced improvements for 17 outcomes and RTR produced improvements for 12 outcomes. For RTR+, 2 differences (for perceived parental norms and global benefit perception) were confined to age, gender, or racial/ethnic subgroups. Effects of RTR+ on sexual initiation emerged 6 months after the intervention, when many adolescents became sexually active. Effects of RTR+ were greater than RTR for 9 outcomes, and remained significantly greater than controls at 1-year follow-up for 12 outcomes. Consistent with fuzzy-trace theory, results suggest that by emphasizing gist representations, which are preserved over long periods and are key memories used in decision making, the enhanced intervention produced larger and more sustained effects on behavioral outcomes and psychosocial mediators of adolescent risk taking.
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