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 …

Abstract Background and Aims Reinforcing value, an index of motivation for a drug, is
commonly measured using behavioral economic purchase tasks. State‐oriented purchase …

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 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 …

Episodic future thinking (EFT), an exercise that involves cognitive simulation of future events,
has demonstrated proximal effects on alcohol demand and delayed reward discounting …

Contemporary approaches for evaluating the demand for reinforcers use either the
Exponential or the Exponentiated model of operant demand, both derived from the …

Behavioral economics is an approach to understanding behavior though integrating
behavioral psychology and microeconomic principles. Advances in behavioral economics …

This brief report provides an account of varying interpretations of elasticity (η) in the operant
demand framework. General references to “demand elasticity” have existed since the …

Significance Restrictive e-cigarette policies may increase purchases from illegal sources.
The Illegal Experimental Tobacco Marketplace (IETM) allows examination of how restrictions …

Crowdsourcing platforms allow researchers to quickly recruit and collect behavioral
economic measures in substance-using populations, such as cigarette smokers. Despite the …