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      Heart versus reason in condom use: implicit versus explicit attitudinal predictors of sexual behavior.

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          We test the hypothesis that explicit and implicit measures of attitudes would differentially predict deliberate versus spontaneous behavior in the domain of condom use. Students completed explicit attitudinal and thought-listing measures about using condoms and implicit measures using attitude priming and Implicit Association Test (IAT) procedures. An attitude IAT measured the association between condom images and affective images; a self-identity IAT measured association of condoms with the self. We predicted and found that condom use with main partners was predicted by explicit measures but not implicit measures; the opposite was true for condom use with casual partners. Although the attitude priming measure was not positively correlated with casual condom use, the IATs were. The patterns of relations, however, were unexpectedly complex, due to a strong decrease in IAT effects over time, and different IATs assessing unique attitudinal dimensions.

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          Journal
          Z Exp Psychol
          Zeitschrift fur experimentelle Psychologie : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Psychologie
          0949-3964
          0949-3964
          2001
          : 48
          : 2
          Affiliations
          [1 ] University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology, 406 Babbidge Road, U-1020, Storrs, CT 06269-1020, USA. Kerry.L.Marsh@uconn.edu
          Article
          11392983
          5919bc5d-65dc-4e01-9c23-0c65f76013bc
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