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 …

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 …

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

This book reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are later changed
as a result of this learning. Nearly all of our behaviors are influenced by prior learning …

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

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

Background Behavioral economics and neuroeconomics bring together perspectives and
methods from psychology, economics, and cognitive neuroscience to understand decision …

Abstract Background The Alcohol Purchase Task (APT) is a behavioral economic
assessment of alcohol demand (ie, motivation for consumption during escalating levels of …

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 …