ArticleJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior2017
Simulating demand for cigarettes among pregnant women: A Low-Risk method for studying vulnerable populations.
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- Moral injury among women military veterans and demand for cigarettes: A behavioral economic investigation using a hypothetical purchase task.Preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Effects of acute distress and tobacco cues on tobacco demand.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Using the Cigarette Purchase Task to examine the relative reinforcing value of cigarettes among mothers with versus without opioid dependence.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Behavioral economic measurement of cigarette demand: A descriptive review of published approaches to the cigarette purchase task.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2020Review
- Comparing participant estimated demand intensity on the cigarette Purchase Task to consumption when usual-brand cigarettes were provided free.Preventive medicine · 2020Article
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- Behavioral economic demand assessments in the addictions.Current opinion in psychology · 2019Review
- A review of tobacco regulatory science research on vulnerable populations.Preventive medicine · 2019Review
- A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Demand for Texting while Driving.The Psychological record · 2019Article
- Estimating Uptake for Reduced-nicotine Cigarettes Using Behavioral Economics.Tobacco regulatory science · 2019Article
- Examining interrelationships between the Cigarette Purchase Task and delay discounting among pregnant women.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2019Article
- Translating Behavior Analysis: a Spectrum Rather than a Road Map.Perspectives on behavior science · 2018Article
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- 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
A substantive obstacle to experimentally studying cigarette smoking and use of other tobacco products in pregnant women is the risk of adverse effects on mother and fetus from experimenter administration of the product of interest. The purpose of this study is to investigate bypassing that obstacle by using behavioral economic simulation tasks. In the present study we used the Cigarette Purchase Task (CPT) to simulate changes in demand for hypothetical cigarettes as a function of varying cigarette prices. Participants were 95 pregnant women who completed the CPT prior to participation in a smoking-cessation trial. Aggregate and individual participant demand varied as an orderly function of price and those changes were well fitted by an exponential equation. Demand also varied in correspondence to two well-validated predictors of individual differences in smoking cessation among pregnant women (cigarettes smoked per day, pre-pregnancy quit attempts). Moreover, CPT indices were more effective than these two conventional variables in predicting individual differences in whether women made a quit attempt during the current pregnancy. Overall, these results represent a promising step in demonstrating the validity and utility of the CPT for experimentally examining demand for cigarettes, and potentially other tobacco and nicotine delivery products, among pregnant women.
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