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Progress of and Prospects for Hypothetical Purchase Task Questionnaires in Consumer Behavior Analysis and Public Policy.
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- Concurrent validity of the marijuana purchase task: a meta-analysis of trait-level cannabis demand and cannabis involvement.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Pooled it
- Sensitivity of hypothetical purchase task indices when studying substance use: A systematic literature review.Preventive medicine · 2019Pooled it
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- Common Practices used to Establish and Implement Token Economies in Clinical and Instructional Settings: A Survey of BACB Certificants.Behavior analysis in practice · 2023Article
- Assessing cocaine motivational value: Comparison of brain reactivity bias toward cocaine cues and cocaine demand.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Notes on demand: Conceptual and empirical benefits of applying Rachlin's discounting equation to demand data.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment.Behavioural processes · 2023Article
- Matching, behavioral economics, and teleological behaviorism: Final cause analysis of substance use and health behavior.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2023Article
- Using crowdsourcing to study the differential effects of cross-drug withdrawal for cigarettes and opioids in a behavioral economic demand framework.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Based on the conceptual, methodological, and analytical framework of operant behavioral economics, hypothetical purchase task (HPT) questionnaires provide a low cost, scalable, and quantitatively rich source of empirical insights on consumer motivation, preferences, and decision-making. Here, we briefly summarize the history of HPT development and validation in clinically oriented research in addiction through to recent work with more conventional consumer goods and services. We discuss several possible novel applications of HPT methods to consumer behavior analysis for business, marketing, and public policy formulation and evaluation, as well as emerging best practices, limitations, and additional directions for future research and development.
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