My research focuses on individuals’ decisions in risky sexual situations. I am particularly interested in investigating the metacognition of how power and morality influence sexual decision-making, with the goal of understanding the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections.
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Moral Judgement Justification and Spitefulness
Every decision that we make whether large or small is governed by emotions, memories, morals, and the community. Moral psychology is a field that investigates how certain moral evaluations are judged based on experiential criteria. As such, an area of the human condition, sexual activity, is fortuitous arena to investigate morals be they in line or against the community. Early investigations in human behavior have looked at financial gain and moral judgment. For example, in a prisoner's dilemma game individuals' likelihood of giving equal amounts of money to others or unequal gives interesting insight into human behavior (Tinghög et al., 2016). From research in animal behavior similar results from a more biological nexus has been seen with spitefulness. From research in spiteful behavior a burgeoning area of research has begun. The present project seeks to investigate individuals on their sexual experiences, relationship quality, political orientation, community morals, and so on. From this we seek to understand how individuals when posed with a challenging task, be it sexual or non-sexual, make decisions and the psychological underpinnings of those decisions.
Moral Judgement Justification and Narcissism
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DoPL and DOSPERT
This study seeks to investigate the relationship between Dominance, Prestige, and Leadership social power motives and dominance-specific risk-taking (DOSPERT), both in the general sense and with domain specific subscales
Prevalence and incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising in the United States. The leading cause of STI transmission is engagement in risky sexual behaviorssuch as unprotected intercourse, which may be conceptualized as an impulsive behavior. Specifically, individuals who engage in unprotected intercourse may do so because they have difficulty waiting condom if one is currently unavailable. Studies have viewed decisions about condom use through the behavioral economic framework of delay discounting, in which the subjective value of a delayed outcome decreases as time to its re increases. Recent studies have decreased delay discounting in clinical populations using episodic future thinking (EFT); however, no studies have examined the effectiveness of EFT in decreasing delay discounting of condom-protected sex present online survey study compared the effects of EFT and control procedures on hypothetical sexual decision-making in the Sexual Delay Discounting Task (SDDT). In Experiment 1, which used a within-subjects design, partici completed the SDDT and a money delay discounting task, which has shown sensitivity to EFT in previous studies. In Experiment 2, which used a between-subjects design, cigarette-smoking participants (≥ 10 cigarettes per day, as in prior stu completed either the SDDT or the money delay discounting task. Despite predictions that engaging in EFT would reduce discounting of the future rewards compared to control conditions, no significant effects of EFT on delay discounting observed. Our findings suggest that EFT may not affect either sexual or monetary discounting. Future investigations of EFT should investigate other procedural differences between prior studies and continue to pursue time-based metho reducing delay discounting and rates of STI transmission in at-risk populations.
An article investigating narcissism and risk behaviors.
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An article looking at how psychological spite can be extremely harmful in ways unheard of.
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