ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2022
Loss aversion and risk for cigarette smoking and other substance use.
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- A large-scale dataset of choice and response-time data in intertemporal choice.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Predicting substance use behaviors with machine learning using small sets of judgment and contextual variables.Npj mental health research · 2026Article
- Age and Gender Differences in the Association Between Risk Aversion and Risky Health Behaviors: Evidence from a Survey Experiment.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2026Article
- Mapping affective pathways to compulsion: Insights from an aversive devaluation approach.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Sex differences in reward network activation are linked to problematic substance use among high-risk adolescents.Advances in drug and alcohol research · 2025Article
- Clustering of behavioral economic biases in decision-making and risk for cigarette smoking and other substance use in women and men.Preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Exploring the Loss Aversion Scale's psychometric properties in Spain.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Loss aversion predicts cigarette smoking status across levels of sociodemographic characteristics.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Testing an insurance-based monetary incentive program for exercise: RCT design and rationale.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Value-based decision-making predicts alcohol use and related problems in young men.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2023Observational
- The endowment effect and temporal discounting of drug and non-drug commodities.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2023Article
- Loss Aversion and Current, Former, and Never-Smoking Status.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Article
- Intersections between environmental reward availability, loss aversion, and delay discounting as potential risk factors for cigarette smoking and other substance use.Preventive medicine · 2022Article
- Decision Making in Addictive Behaviors Based on Prospect Theory: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundCigarette smoking is among the leading preventable causes of global morbidity and mortality. We aimed to determine whether individual differences in loss aversion, a bias in decision-making wherein losses are valued greater than gains, predicts smoking and other addiction risk.
methodsWe recruited current daily cigarette smokers (n = 181; > 10 cigarettes per day) and never-smokers (n = 237; < 100 cigarettes lifetime) from the United States using Amazon Mechanical Turk. Groups were matched on gender, educational attainment, and age. All completed items related to current cigarette smoking, alcohol use, other drug use, sleep problems, and depressed mood, and task-based measures of loss aversion and delay discounting, a decision-making bias associated with cigarette smoking.
resultsSmokers were less loss averse than never-smokers (F(1, 411) = 24.19, η
conclusionsLoss aversion was associated with current cigarette smoking and other substance use patterns independent of delay discounting. Loss aversion may warrant attention as a protective factor and potential target for preventive intervention for substance use and addiction.
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