Journal article
Reliability and Validity of a Demand Curve Measure of Alcohol Reinforcement
Abstract
Recent clinical research suggests that several self-report behavioral economic measures of relative reinforcing efficacy (RRE) may show utility as indices of substance abuse problem severity. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Alcohol Purchase Task (APT), a RRE measure that uses hypothetical choices regarding alcohol purchases at varying prices (demand curves) to generate several indices of …
Authors
Murphy JG; MacKillop J; Skidmore JR; Pederson AA
Journal
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 396–404
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Publication Date
December 2009
DOI
10.1037/a0017684
ISSN
1064-1297