Document 0810
 DOCN  M9440810
 TI    Unsafe sex: decision-making biases and heuristics.
 DT    9404
 AU    Kaplan BJ; Shayne VT; Department of Psychology, State University of New
       York, College; at Fredonia.
 SO    AIDS Educ Prev. 1993 Winter;5(4):294-301. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94128503
 AB    This paper suggests that continued high-risk behavior is the result of
       the heuristics used to make judgments under uncertainty, and that the
       same heuristics may be mobilized to increase the use of safer-sex
       practices. In order to explain why it is that individuals fail to make
       effective use of the information they may have concerning rates of
       infection, consequences of infection and their own at-risk status,
       theory and research in several areas will be considered. Developments in
       the breadth of areas to which basic research on decision-making has been
       applied continue to provide new approaches toward understanding and
       overcoming the processes by which we reason (Kahnemann, 1991). It is
       worth reminding ourselves that public health campaigns in other areas
       have led to changes in behavior. Reasoning, even with its biases, is
       still the route by which we make decisions, most of them effective and
       self-protective.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/
       PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  *Decision Making  Human  HIV
       Infections/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION
       Internal-External Control  Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice  Motivation
       *Risk-Taking  *Sex Behavior  JOURNAL ARTICLE  REVIEW  REVIEW, TUTORIAL

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