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 …

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

Behavioral economic demand analyses that quantify the relationship between the
consumption of a commodity and its price have proven useful in studying the reinforcing …

Drug addiction is a neuropsychiatric disorder with grave personal consequences that has an
extraordinary global economic impact. Despite decades of research, the options available to …

Experimental assessments of demand allow the examination of economic phenomena
relevant to the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of addiction and other pathologies (eg …

Not everyone who experiments with substance use or risky behavior becomes addicted, and
many who are addicted have been able to recover. This authoritative book, now revised and …

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 …

A behavioral economic approach to alcohol use disorders (AUDs) emphasizes both
individual and environmental determinants of alcohol use. The current study examined …

Background: Behavioral economic alcohol purchase tasks (APTs) are self‐report measures
of alcohol demand that assess estimated consumption at escalating levels of price …