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A multiple‐stimulus‐without‐replacement assessment for sexual partners: Purchase task validation
Author(s) -
Jarmolowicz David P.,
Lemley Shea M.,
Mateos Ananya,
Sofis Michael J.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1002/jaba.313
Subject(s) - psychology , preference , valuation (finance) , stimulus (psychology) , developmental psychology , social psychology , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , statistics , mathematics , finance , economics
The current study developed and tested a multiple‐stimulus‐without‐replacement ( MSWO ) assessment for potential sexual partners for use in research on human immunodeficiency virus. College students ( N = 41) first completed an MSWO assessment and then completed a hypothetical purchase task for encounters with partners identified by the MSWO as high, median, and low preference. Overall, hypothetical purchase task responding was consistent with that from the MSWO , in that the highest valuation was observed for the high‐preference partner and the lowest for the low‐preference partner. Potentially interesting individual differences in purchase task responding, however, were obtained; some subjects showed differentiated responding among the 3 preference levels ( n = 15), whereas others similarly valued high‐ and median‐preference partners ( n = 5), and others similarly valued low‐ and median‐preference partners ( n = 18).