SynthesisExperimental and clinical psychopharmacology2021
Sexual discounting: A systematic review of discounting processes and sexual behavior.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Measuring Sexual Risk-Taking: A Systematic Review of the Sexual Delay Discounting Task.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Pooled it
- Sexual delay discounting as a moderator of the association between substance use and condomless anal sex among young black and Latino men who have sex with men.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Applying Behavioral Economics to HIV Prevention: Development of a Novel PrEP Demand Task.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Assessing Motivation for Condom Use Among MSM: Effort Discounting as a Novel Measure of Sexual Risk.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Innovations in health behavior research: Current status and strategic future directions.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Investigating the influence of partner attitudes, norms and risk behavior on condom use decision-making during penile-vaginal sex with casual partners: a vignette study among dutch young people.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Behavioral Economic Assessment of Contraceptive Use and Abortion Access Among College Cis Women in the U.S.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Delay discounting data in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study: Modeling and analysis considerations.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- The Evolutionary Theory of Behavior Dynamics Predicts Delay Discounting.Perspectives on behavior science · 2025Article
- Human laboratory models of reward in substance use disorder.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2024Review
- The Use of Nonmonetary Outcomes in Health-Related Delay Discounting Research: Review and Recommendations.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Review
- A Behavioral Economic Examination of Sexual Behaviors in the Era of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis via Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Use of preexposure prophylaxis and condom purchasing decisions.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- Substance use and variation in sexual partnership rates among young MSM and young transgender women: Disaggregating between and within-person associations.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- Delay Discounting and Sexual Decision-Making: Understanding Condom Use Behavior Among U.S. College Students.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- Focusing on Safety or Pleasure Determine Condom Use Intentions Differently Depending on Condom Availability and STI Risk.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2023Article
- Explainable machine learning analysis reveals sex and gender differences in the phenotypic and neurobiological markers of Cannabis Use Disorder.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Beyond Systematic and Unsystematic Responding: Latent Class Mixture Models to Characterize Response Patterns in Discounting Research.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Behavioral economic methods to inform infectious disease response: Prevention, testing, and vaccination in the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Behavioral processes underlying sexual behavior are important for understanding normal human functioning and risk behavior leading to sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This systematic review examines delay and probability discounting in human sexual behavior through synthesis of 50 peer-reviewed, original research articles. Sixteen studies focusing exclusively on monetary delay discounting found small effect size positive correlations with sexual risk behaviors. Eleven studies examined delay or probability discounting of sexual behavior itself using tasks that varied duration, frequency, or quality of sex to determine value. Results show delay and uncertainty of sex causes systematic decreases in value. These studies also show consistent medium effect size relationships between sexual discounting measures and sexual health and substance use, supporting utility above and beyond monetary discounting. Twenty-three studies have modeled clinically relevant decision-making, examining effects of delay until condom availability and STI contraction probability on condom use. Observational and experimental designs found condom-use discounting is elevated in high-risk substance use populations, is sensitive to context (e.g., partner desirability), and is more robustly related to sexual risk compared with monetary discounting or condom use decisions when no delay/uncertainty was involved. Administering cocaine, alcohol, and, for some participants, methamphetamine increased condom-use discounting with minimal effect on monetary discounting or condom use when no delay/uncertainty was involved. Reviewed studies robustly support that sexual behavior is highly dependent on delay and probability discounting, and that these processes strongly contribute to sexual risk. Future research should exploit these systematic relationships to design behavioral and pharmacological approaches to decrease sexual risk behavior. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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