Probability and delay discounting of hypothetical sexual outcomes

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 687-692

  Lawyer, Steven R ^a   Williams, Sonja A ^a   Prihodova, Tereza ^a   Rollins, Jason D ^a   Lester, Anita C ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice behavior; Delay; Discounting; Probability; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATE CHOICE; MODELING; PROBABILITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STUDENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONEY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953913796     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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