Beyond the jab: Modeling HIV vaccine acceptance in sexual and gender minorities with behavioral economic demand.
This study was an investigation of the utility of behavioral economic demand curves (quantitative models showing how consumption changes with price) in assessing acceptance of hypothetical HIV vaccines among sexual and gender minorities (SGMs). Two experiments used simulated purchase tasks (hypothet...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Vol. 124; no. 1; pp. 1 - 18 |
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