Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to submit your manuscript to SPPS

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by O'Keeffe, M. K.
Right arrow Articles by Baum, A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by O'Keeffe, M. K.
Right arrow Articles by Baum, A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Behavior and Prevention of AIDS

Bases of Research and Intervention

Mary K. O'Keeffe

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Sarah Nesselhof-Kendall

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Andrew Baum

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

At present, modification of specific, typically social behaviors to reduce or eliminate risk of AIDS is the only way to control spread of the disease. Social psychological research that has implications for the prevention of AIDS and HIV infection, including research concerning group and normative pressures, attitude formation and change, and social context, is reviewed Some ongoing AIDS intervention efforts are also discussed. By applying social psychological findings to AIDS education and prevention efforts, we may learn more about the dynamics associated with being at risk for HIV infection and perhaps further our knowledge of social pressures in general. Until a vaccine or cure is developed for this diseased our knowledge of social behavior will play a large role in both changing the public's attitudes toward AIDS and its victims and modifying or eliminating risk behaviors that lead to HIV infection and spread

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 1, 166-180 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167290161012
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Journal of Adolescent ResearchHome page
J. S. St. Lawrence, T. L. Brasfield, K. W. Jefferson, E. Allyene, and A. Shirley
Social Support as a Factor in African-American Adolescents' Sexual Risk Behavior
Journal of Adolescent Research, July 1, 1994; 9(3): 292 - 310.
[Abstract]

Home page
 Pers Soc Psychol BullHome page
J. Stone, E. Aronson, A. L. Crain, M. P. Winslow, and C. B. Fried
Inducing Hypocrisy as a Means of Encouraging Young Adults to Use Condoms
Pers Soc Psychol Bull, February 1, 1994; 20(1): 116 - 128.
[Abstract]

Home page
 Small Group ResearchHome page
R. R. Macnair, T. R. Ellioyt, and B. Yoder
Aids Prevention Groups as Persuasive Appeals: Effects on Attitudes about Precautionary Behaviors among Persons in Substance Abuse Treatment
Small Group Research, August 1, 1991; 22(3): 301 - 319.
[Abstract]