ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2018
Virtually 'in the heat of the moment': insula activation in safe sex negotiation among risky men.
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- Emotion-related impulsivity and risky decision-making: A systematic review and meta-regression.Clinical psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- Sexual discounting: A systematic review of discounting processes and sexual behavior.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2021Pooled it
- Introducing the Glutamate-Amplifies-Noradrenergic-Effects (GANE) Model to the Neurocognitive Study of Emotion-Related Impulsivity.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Protean Kinematics: A Blended Model of VR Physics.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- User-Agent Bond in Generalizable Environments: Long-Term Risk-Reduction via Nudged Virtual Choices.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Drinking motives mediate the associations between urgency and hazardous/harmful alcohol use among moderate-to-heavy drinking men who have sex with men (MSM).Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Impulsive Responses to Positive and Negative Emotions: Parallel Neurocognitive Correlates and Their Implications.Biological psychiatry · 2020Review
- Shared Neural Correlates Underlying Addictive Disorders and Negative Urgency.Brain sciences · 2019Review
- Causal Inference in Generalizable Environments: Systematic Representative Design.Psychological inquiry · 2019Article
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Abstract
HIV is most prevalent among men who have sex with men (MSM), and although most MSM use condoms consistently during casual sex, some take risks. To better understand the psychology of those risky decisions, we examined neural correlates of playing a virtual sexual 'hook up' game in an functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner in MSM who had, in the past 90 days, been sexually risky (N = 76) or safe (N = 31). We found that during potentially risky sexual choices, previously risky MSM had more right insula activity than previously safe MSM. Real-life sexual risk was related to trait positive and negative urgency. Insula activity that differentiated risky and safe MSM was related to trait positive and negative urgency. Future work should further examine if, and to what extent, insula activation during safe sex negotiation drives MSM's rash risky sexual decision-making.
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