The utility of multiple strategies for understanding complex behaviors.
Nickerson's critique of our brief report on changes in knowledge, attitudes and use of condoms among adolescents over a year's time mistakenly interprets the paper as examining an attitude/behavior discrepancy. A number of her criticisms follow from this mistaken interpretation. We agree with some of her general points but identify several errors in her analysis and note areas of disagreement about strategies for studying complex behaviors.
Adler
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Health Psychology Program, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0844.
Kegeles
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SM
Irwin
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CE
D000293:Adolescent; D003275:Contraceptive Devices, Male / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control