Commentary the Relational Rationality of Risk and Uncertainty Reducing Processes Explaining Hiv Risk-Related Sexual Behaviour

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ID15098775
AuthorsLuc Van Campenhoudt (corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume1
Issue2
Pages181-191
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/136910599301094
OpenAlexW2034660679
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited8

Recent research examining behavioural responses to the risk of sexual transmission of HIV has identified many of the factors involved, as well as a number of theoretical models by which to account for individual reactions. It has also raised questions about whether it is possible to develop a causal model likely to prove acceptable to the majority of investigators. Despite differences between them, a number of recent theoretical approaches share some key elements in common. By focusing on the relationship between partners rather than on qualities of the individuals concerned, they enable us to understand risk-taking in a new way. They give special emphasis to the ways in which partners arbitrate, more or less unconsciously, between the various influences that affect their behaviour. This paper examines how various approaches discussed in a recent European collaborative project have tackled this question. It works from the hypothesis that risk-taking is relationally rational and can be analysed as an uncertainty-reducing process. In this process, the individual is best considered as homo socialis rather than homo economicus

Affect (linguistics · Business · Economics · Epistemology · Homo economicus · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Positive economics · Process (computing · Rationality · Risk analysis (engineering · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Computer Science · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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