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 …

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 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 …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders (SUDs) commonly co-
occur, and there is some evidence to suggest that PTSD symptom clusters are differentially …

Abstract beezdemand: Behavioral Economic Easy Demand, a novel package for performing
behavioral economic analyses, is introduced and evaluated. beezdemand extends the …

Delay discounting (DD) and probability discounting (PD) are behavioral measures of choice
that index sensitivity to delayed and probabilistic outcomes, which are associated with a …

Background Distinct behavioral economic domains, including high perceived drug value
(demand) and delay discounting (DD), have been implicated in the initiation of drug use and …