unprotected sex
Smith, & Taylor, 2003) or engage in unprotected sex (Kershaw,
Ethier, Niccolai, Lewis, & Ickovics, 2003). Additional work is
necessary to determine the relative impact of costs and benefits
on risk-taking behavior. The current study has shown how such
work can—and should—take a domain-specific approach, tar-
geting the subsamples of interest.
Acknowledgments—We would like to thank members of the
Berliner Börsenkreis, ELAN Health Club Berlin, Tauchsport-
Club-Berlin, and Aktienclub Berlin for participation. We also
thank Uwe Czienskowski, Yaacov Kareev, Michael Lee, Ann
Renee-Blais, and Elke Weber for constructive comments. This
research was supported by National Research Services Award
T32 HS 0046 from the Agency for Health Care Research to the
first author and a Max Planck Society fellowship to the third
author; the second author was supported by National Institute of
Mental Health Grant 5 T32 MH014257-30 to the University of
Illinois. The first and second authors contributed equally in the
preparation of the article.
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