We speculate that financial risk taking may result from evolutionarily adaptive mechanisms that encourage novelty-seeking behavior, however future research is needed to determine whether it leads to better economic outcomes and evolutionary benefits, more broadly construed.
Thus, we suggest that identifying the determinants of weight control concerns and behaviors in future research is essential to analyze the mechanism through which weight control concerns and behaviors increase the likelihood of eating disorder symptoms, independent of actual weight.
This is an emerging area in hormones and behavior, and hopefully, future research will unravel mechanisms further, particularly in relation to global climate change and human disturbance of habitats.
Identification of sources of social support (spouse, family members, relatives and friends, and health care providers) and their effect on mammography behavior demands more future research.
The most important suggestion from the authors, however, is not to exclude the behavior subscale from future research on fear of hypoglycemia, as has been done in some studies because of the questionable validity of the behavior subscale [ 21].
Analyses from a separate sample of highway road workers who participated in a different survey study (Stock et al., manuscript in preparation) indicated that having coworkers who engage in sun protection or have had skin cancer predicts positive sun protection cognitions and behaviors, suggesting that future research should further explore the effects of coworkers.
One important implication of our findings, and of studies of younger mostly heterosexual women that also have found elevated rates of health risk behaviors, is that future research should include more nuanced measures of sexual identity – beyond the standard three categories of heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian/gay.
Specifying and quantifying trends in various parameters and studying various finer details of trend behavior are tasks for future research.
Our findings demonstrate that differences in impulsive traits constitute important sources of heterogeneity in risk-taking behavior, for consideration in future research.
Consideration of environmental, social, and cultural determinants, as well as individual behaviors is needed in future research.
