ArticlePloS one2015
Regret Expression and Social Learning Increases Delay to Sexual Gratification.
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- Behavioral trainings and manipulations to reduce delay discounting: A systematic review.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2019Pooled it
- Impaired sexual delay discounting as a potential mechanism in women's compulsive sexual behavior: Evidence from a mixed-gender experiment.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Delay Discounting and Sexual Decision-Making: Understanding Condom Use Behavior Among U.S. College Students.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
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- Demographic and sexual risk predictors of delay discounting of condom-protected sex.Psychology & health · 2020Article
- Reinforcer pathology: Narrative of hurricane-associated loss increases delay discounting, demand, and consumption of highly palatable snacks in the obese.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Article
- The Experimental Tobacco Marketplace: Narratives engage cognitive biases to increase electronic cigarette substitution.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Article
- The experimental tobacco marketplace: Narrative influence on electronic cigarette substitution.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2019Article
- Threat appeals reduce impulsive decision making associated with texting while driving: A behavioral economic approach.PloS one · 2019Article
- The roles of delay and probability discounting in texting while driving: Toward the development of a translational scientific program.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveModification 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.
methodsAmazon 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 most and least want to have sex with and person most and least likely to have a sexually transmitted infection. They then answered questions about engaging in unprotected sex now or waiting some delay for condom-protected sex in each partner condition.
resultsResults indicate that the negative health outcome scenario with regret expression resulted in delayed sexual gratification in the most attractive and least STI partner conditions, whereas in the least attractive and most STI partner conditions the negative health outcome with and without regret resulted in delayed sexual gratification.
conclusionsResults suggest that the sexual discounting task is a relevant laboratory measure and the framing of information to include regret expression may be relevant for prevention of risky sexual behavior.
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