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

Drug addiction may be a goal-directed choice driven by excessive drug value in negative
affective states, a habit driven by strong stimulus− response associations, or a compulsion …

Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to
the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary …

The field of behavioral economics has made important inroads into the understanding of
substance use disorders through the concept of reinforcer pathology. Reinforcer pathology …

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 Episodic future thinking (EFT) requires an individual to vividly pre‐experience a
realistic future event. Inspired by previous reports of reducing delay discounting following …

Abstract Hypothetical Purchase Tasks (HPTs) simulate demand for a substance as a
function of escalating price. HPTs are increasingly used to examine relationships between …

Obesity is associated with steep discounting of the future and increased food reinforcement.
Episodic future thinking (EFT), a type of prospective thinking, has been observed to reduce …

The first year of college is a unique transition period, in which the student establishes a
college identity and social network. Alcohol use is often part of this process, and many first …

This chapter focuses more on the utility of economic methods of analysis and consistent
functional relationships than on hypothetical economic concepts, such as utility functions …