Three predictions of the economic concept of unit price in a choice context

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-64

  Madden, Gregory J ^a   Bickel, Warren K ^b   Jacobs, Eric A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Delay discounting; Drug self administration; Humans; Matching law; Plunger pull; Unit price

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MOTIVATION; SMOKING;

EID: 0033632224     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2000.73-45     Document Type: Article

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