2024
DOI: 10.1007/s12119-024-10243-x
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Safety and Pleasure Motives Determine Perceived Risks and Rewards in Casual Sex

David L. Rodrigues,
A. Catarina Carvalho,
Rhonda N. Balzarini
et al.

Abstract: People differ in their predispositions to value safety maintenance (i.e., disease prevention regulatory focus) or pleasure pursuit (i.e., pleasure promotion regulatory focus). Extending recent research, results of a cross-sectional study with participants living in Portugal and Spain (N = 770) showed that these individual differences resulted in a trade-off between potential health risks and pleasure rewards in sexual practices and experiences with casual partners. Specifically, people who were more focused on… Show more

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