Delayed Reward Discounting and Alcohol Misuse: The Roles of Response Consistency and Reward Magnitude

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 418-431

  Amlung, Michael ^a   MacKillop, James ^b  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Behavioral Economics; Delay Discounting; Magnitude Effects; Response Consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866884303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20438087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5127/jep.017311     Document Type: Article

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