Evaluating the Risk and Attractiveness of Romantic Partners When Confronted with Contradictory Cues

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• 作者：Michael Hennessy ; Martin Fishbein ; Brenda Curtis and Daniel W. Barrett
• 关键词：Sex partner selection ; Factorial surveys ; Sexual decision making
• 刊名：AIDS and Behavior
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：May, 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：11
• 期：3
• 页码：479-490
• 全文大小：206 KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Public Health
  Health Psychology
  Infectious Diseases
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-3254

文摘

Research shows that people engage in “risky” sex with “safe” partners and in “safer” sex with “riskier” partners. How is the determination of “risky” or “safe” status made? Factorial survey methodology was used to randomly construct descriptions of romantic partners based on attractive and/or risky characteristics. Respondents evaluated 20 descriptions for attractiveness, health risk, likelihood of going on a date, likelihood of unprotected sex, and likelihood of STD/HIV infection. Respondents were most attracted to and perceived the least risk from attractive descriptions and were least attracted to and perceived the most risk from the risky descriptions. The differences between the “conflicting information” descriptions are attributable to a primacy effect: descriptions that began with attractiveness information but end with risk information were evaluated more positively than those that began with risk and ended with attractive information.