Behavioral economics of cigarette purchase tasks: Within-subject comparison of real, potentially real, and hypothetical cigarettes

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 524-530

  Wilson, A George ^a   Franck, Christopher T ^a,b   Koffarnus, Mikhail N ^a   Bickel, Warren K ^a  

^a VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; CIGARETTE PURCHASE TASK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURCHASING; REWARD; SMOKING; SMOKING AND SMOKING RELATED PHENOMENA; SMOKING HABIT; TOBACCO CONSUMPTION; ECONOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOBACCO;

ADULT; ECONOMICS, BEHAVIORAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SMOKING; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84964964205     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv154     Document Type: Article

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