Behavioural economic accounts of addiction conceptualize harmful drug use as an operant
reinforcer pathology, emphasizing that a drug is consumed because of overvaluation of …

Behavioural economic theories of addiction contend that greater expected value of drug
relative to alternative non-drug rewards is the core mechanism underpinning vulnerability to …

Background: Increases in the incidence of psychological distress and alcohol use during the
COVID-19 pandemic have been predicted. Behavioral theories of depression and alcohol …

Background and aims An early meta‐analysis testing the concurrent validity of the Alcohol
Purchase Task (APT), a measure of alcohol's relative reinforcing value, reported mixed …

Behavioral economic research demonstrates that alcohol and drug consumption is (a) an
inverse function of constraints on access to the substance and (b) a direct function of …

While social context has long been considered central to substance use disorder prevention
and treatment and many drug-taking events occur in social settings, experimental research …

The reinforcing efficacy, or behavior-strengthening effect, of a substance is a critical
determinant of substance use typically quantified by measuring behavioral allocation to the …

Objective: Behavioral economics suggest that cannabis reinforcing value (cannabis
demand) may be influenced by external, contextual factors such as the social reward that …

Objective: A substantial number of people reduce their consumption of alcohol in the
absence of formal treatment; however, less is known about the mechanisms of change. The …

Background Behavioral economic theory predicts decisions to drink are cost benefit
analyses, and heavy episodic drinking occurs when benefits outweigh costs. Social …