ReviewBehavioural processes2016
The utility of behavioral economics in expanding the free-feed model of obesity.
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- A Behavioral Economic Characterization of the Impact of the COVID-19 Quarantine on Reinforcer Diversity, Behavior, and Health.Perspectives on behavior science · 2026Review
- A simple action reduces high-fat diet intake and obesity in mice.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Lack of Bmal1 leads to changes in rhythmicity and impairs motivation towards natural stimuli.Open biology · 2024Article
- The Use of Nonmonetary Outcomes in Health-Related Delay Discounting Research: Review and Recommendations.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Review
- Information, ingestion, and impulsivity: The impact of technology-enabled healthy food labels on online grocery shopping in impulsive and non-impulsive consumers.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Delay discounting and obesity in food insecure and food secure women.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2021Article
- Pediatric Obesity: An Economic Perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- Healthy Eating: Approaching the Selection, Preparation, and Consumption of Healthy Food as Choice Behavior.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- High-fat diet alters weight, caloric intake, and haloperidol sensitivity in the context of effort-based responding.Behavioural pharmacology · 2017Article
- Use of the Exponential and Exponentiated Demand Equations to Assess the Behavioral Economics of Negative Reinforcement.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
Animal models of obesity are numerous and diverse in terms of identifying specific neural and peripheral mechanisms related to obesity; however, they are limited when it comes to behavior. The standard behavioral measure of food intake in most animal models occurs in a free-feeding environment. While easy and cost-effective for the researcher, the free-feeding environment omits some of the most important features of obesity-related food consumption-namely, properties of food availability, such as effort and delay to obtaining food. Behavior economics expands behavioral measures of obesity animal models by identifying such behavioral mechanisms. First, economic demand analysis allows researchers to understand the role of effort in food procurement, and how physiological and neural mechanisms are related. Second, studies on delay discounting contribute to a growing literature that shows that sensitivity to delayed food- and food-related outcomes is likely a fundamental process of obesity. Together, these data expand the animal model in a manner that better characterizes how environmental factors influence food consumption.
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