Behavioral Economics of Cigarette Purchase Tasks: Within-Subject Comparison of Real, Potentially Real, and Hypothetical Cigarettes

• Published in: Nicotine & tobacco research Vol. 18; no. 5; p. 524
• Main Authors: Wilson, A George, Franck, Christopher T, Koffarnus, Mikhail N, Bickel, Warren K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.05.2016
• Subjects: Adult; Economics, Behavioral; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Models, Theoretical; Random Allocation; Smoking - economics; Smoking - psychology; Tobacco Products - economics

Hypothetical rewards are commonly used in studies of laboratory-based tobacco demand. However, behavioral economic demand procedures require confirmation that the behavior elicited from real and hypothetical reward types are equivalent, and that results attained from these procedures are comparable...