Explicit Attitudes
Participants were asked to imagine they met someone at a local bar with whom they really hit it off. After talking for a while, they then proceeded to head home, and an opportunity for sex arose. We then asked participants to rate on a VAS how wise (very unwise – very wise), pleasant (very unpleasant – very pleasant), hard (very hard – very easy) or good (very bad idea – very good idea) it would be to use a condom in this situation. VAS scores on all items were summed up. The internal consistency for this scale in the current sample was high (α = 0.84).