Is Talk "Cheap"? An Initial Investigation of the Equivalence of Alcohol Purchase Task Performance for Hypothetical and Actual Rewards

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 716-724

  Amlung, Michael T ^a   Acker, John ^a   Stojek, Monika K ^a   Murphy, James G ^b,c   Mackillop, James ^a,c  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Behavioral Economics; Craving; Cue Reactivity; Demand; Purchase Task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL PURCHASE TASK PERFORMANCE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BLOOD PRESSURE; DECISION MAKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXCITEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFFECT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; ALCOHOLISM; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMMERCE; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859209626     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01656.x     Document Type: Article

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