ArticleJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior2023
Matching, behavioral economics, and teleological behaviorism: Final cause analysis of substance use and health behavior.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A behavioral choice analysis of the role of life events during early nonabstinent natural recovery from alcohol use disorder.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Whole Person Recovery from Substance Use Disorder: A Call for Research Examining a Dynamic Behavioral Ecological Model of Contexts Supportive of Recovery.Addiction research & theory · 2025Article
- Reward deprivation is associated with elevated alcohol demand in emerging adults.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
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- Sources of Environmental Reinforcement and Engagement in Health Risk Behaviors Among a General Population Sample of US Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Heterogeneity in choice models of addiction: the role of context.Psychopharmacology · 2024Review
- Contextual and psychosocial factors influencing drug reward in humans: The importance of non-drug reinforcement.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2024Review
- A brief measure of non-drug reinforcement: Association with treatment outcomes during initial substance use recovery.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- The mindful resiliency in recovery model: empowering the transcendence of stigma.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Howard Rachlin and his contemporaries pioneered basic behavioral science innovations that have been usefully applied to advance understanding of human substance use disorder and related health behaviors. We briefly summarize the innovations of molar behaviorism (the matching law), behavioral economics, and teleological behaviorism. Behavioral economics and teleological behaviorism's focus on final causes are especially illuminating for these applied fields. Translational and applied research are summarized for laboratory studies of temporal discounting and economic demand, cohort studies of alcohol and other drug use in the natural environment, and experimental behavioral economic modeling of health behavior-related public health policies. We argue that the teleological behavioral perspective on health behavior is conducive to and merges seamlessly with the contemporary socioecological model of health behavior, which broadens the contextual influences (e.g., community, economic, infrastructure, health care access and policy) of individuals' substance use and other health risk behaviors. Basic-to-applied translations to date have been successful and bode well for continued applications of basic science areas pioneered by Howard Rachlin and his contemporaries.
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