Reinforcer pathology: the behavioral economics of abuse liability testing

Impulsive and self-control choices in opioid-dependent patients and non-drug-using control patients: Drug and monetary rewards.

Madden, G. J., Petry, N. M., Badger, G. J., & Bickel, W. K. (1997) · Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1037/1064-1297.5.3.256 · Cited by 911 · see citing works

The behavioral economics of substance use disorders: reinforcement pathologies and their repair

Bickel, W. K., Johnson, M. W., Koffarnus, M. N., MacKillop, J., & Murphy, J. G. (2014) · Annual Review of Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032813-153724 · Cited by 655 · see citing works

Relative reinforcing efficacy of alcohol among college student drinkers.

Murphy, J. G., & MacKillop, J. M. (2006) · Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1037/1064-1297.14.2.219 · Cited by 399 · see citing works

The behavioral-and neuro-economic process of temporal discounting: a candidate behavioral marker of addiction

Bickel, W. K., Koffarnus, M. N., Moody, L., & Wilson, A. G. (2014) · Neuropharmacology · doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.06.013 · Cited by 386 · see citing works

The Behavioral Economics of Tobacco Products

Bickel, W. K., Moody, L. N., Snider, S. E., Mellis, A. M., Stein, J. S., & Quisenberry, A. J. (2017) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781315637938-3 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

21st century neurobehavioral theories of decision making in addiction: Review and evaluation

Bickel, W. K., Mellis, A. M., Snider, S. E., Athamneh, L. N., Stein, J. S., & Pope, D. A. (2018) · Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.pbb.2017.09.009 · Cited by 134 · see citing works

Addiction Biomarkers: Dimensional Approaches to Understanding Addiction

Kwako, L. E., Bickel, W. K., & Goldman, D. (2018) · Trends in Molecular Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.molmed.2017.12.007 · Cited by 103 · see citing works

Evaluating non-medical prescription opioid demand using commodity purchase tasks: test-retest reliability and incremental validity

Strickland, J. C., Lile, J. A., & Stoops, W. W. (2019) · Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1007/s00213-019-05234-y · Cited by 51 · see citing works

A systematic review and meta-analysis of delay discounting and cannabis use.

Strickland, J. C., Lee, D. C., Vandrey, R. G., & Johnson, M. W. (2020) · Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1037/pha0000378 · Cited by 47 · see citing works

A zero‐bounded model of operant demand

Gilroy, S. P., Kaplan, B. A., Schwartz, L. P., Reed, D. D., & Hursh, S. R. (2021) · Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior · doi:10.1002/jeab.679 · Cited by 46 · see citing works

The influence of sex and estrous cyclicity on cocaine and remifentanil demand in rats

Lacy, R. T., Austin, B. P., & Strickland, J. C. (2019) · Addiction Biology · doi:10.1111/adb.12716 · Cited by 42 · see citing works

What Is Addiction? How Can Animal and Human Research Be Used to Advance Research, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Alcohol and Other Substance Use Disorders?

Bickel, W. K., Crabbe, J. C., & Sher, K. J. (2018) · Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research · doi:10.1111/acer.13912 · Cited by 33 · see citing works

Reinforcer pathology: Narrative of hurricane-associated loss increases delay discounting, demand, and consumption of highly palatable snacks in the obese.

Snider, S. E., Mellis, A. M., Poe, L. M., Kocher, M. A., Turner, J. K., & Bickel, W. K. (2019) · Psychology of Addictive Behaviors · doi:10.1037/adb0000498 · Cited by 33 · see citing works

Using behavioral economic variables to predict future alcohol use in a crowdsourced sample

Strickland, J. C., Alcorn, J. L., & Stoops, W. W. (2019) · Journal of Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1177/0269881119827800 · Cited by 32 · see citing works

Using Demand Curves to Quantify the Reinforcing Value of Social and Solitary Drinking

Acuff, S. F., Soltis, K. E., & Murphy, J. G. (2020) · Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research · doi:10.1111/acer.14382 · Cited by 31 · see citing works

A review of cross-commodity delay discounting research with relevance to addiction

Pritschmann, R. K., Yurasek, A. M., & Yi, R. (2021) · Behavioural Processes · doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104339 · Cited by 28 · see citing works

Applying behavioral economic theory to problematic Internet use: An initial investigation.

Acuff, S. F., MacKillop, J. M., & Murphy, J. G. (2018) · Psychology of Addictive Behaviors · doi:10.1037/adb0000404 · Cited by 25 · see citing works

Neuroimaging, neuromodulation, and population health: the neuroscience of chronic disease prevention

Hall, P. A., Bickel, W. K., Erickson, K. I., & Wagner, D. D. (2018) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/nyas.13868 · Cited by 23 · see citing works

A neuroeconomic signature of opioid craving: How fluctuations in craving bias drug-related and nondrug-related value

Biernacki, K., López-Guzmán, S., Messinger, J. C., Banavar, N. V., Rotrosen, J., Glimcher, P. W., & Konova, A. B. (2021) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/s41386-021-01248-3 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

The nexus of opioids, pain, and addiction: Challenges and solutions

Henningfield, J. E., Ashworth, J., Gerlach, K. K., Simone, B., & Schnoll, S. H. (2019) · Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.105852 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

Delay Discounting and the Income-Food Insecurity-Obesity Paradox in Mothers

Epstein, L. H., Rizwan, A., Paluch, R. A., & Temple, J. L. (2023) · Journal of Obesity · doi:10.1155/2023/8898498 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

A psychobioecological model to understand the income-food insecurity-obesity relationship

Epstein, L. H., Temple, J. L., Faith, M. S., Hostler, D. P., & Rizwan, A. (2024) · Appetite · doi:10.1016/j.appet.2024.107275 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Consortium on Methods Evaluating Tobacco: Research Tools to Inform US Food and Drug Administration Regulation of Snus

Berman, M. L., Bickel, W. K., Harris, A. C., LeSage, M. G., O’Connor, R. J., Stepanov, I. S., Shields, P. G., & Hatsukami, D. K. (2017) · Nicotine & Tobacco Research · doi:10.1093/ntr/ntx228 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Alcohol Use Disorder Interventions Targeting Brain Sites for Both Conditioned Reward and Delayed Gratification

Oberlin, B. G., Shen, Y. I., & Kareken, D. A. (2019) · Neurotherapeutics · doi:10.1007/s13311-019-00817-1 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Designer Drugs 2.0

HUESTIS, M., & Tyndale, R. F. (2017) · Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics · doi:10.1002/cpt.575 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Single- and cross-commodity delay discounting of money and e-cigarette liquid in experienced e-cigarette users

Pericot‐Valverde, I., Yoon, J. H., & Gaalema, D. E. (2019) · Drug and Alcohol Dependence · doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107740 · Cited by 11 · see citing works

The synergistic effect of cigarette demand and delay discounting on nicotine dependence among treatment-seeking smokers.

Weidberg, S. E., Secades‐Villa, R., Pérez, Á. G., González‐Roz, A., & Hermida, J. R. F. (2018) · Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1037/pha0000248 · Cited by 9 · see citing works

The Influence of Episodic Future Thinking and Graphic Warning Labels on Delay Discounting and Cigarette Demand

Naudé, G. P., Dolan, S. B., Strickland, J. C., Berry, M. S., Cox, D. J., & Johnson, M. W. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph182312637 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

Beyond Systematic and Unsystematic Responding: Latent Class Mixture Models to Characterize Response Patterns in Discounting Research

Gilroy, S. P., Strickland, J. C., Naudé, G. P., Johnson, M. W., Amlung, M. T., & Reed, D. D. (2022) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2022.806944 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

The Use of Nonmonetary Outcomes in Health-Related Delay Discounting Research: Review and Recommendations

Rasmussen, E. B., Camp, L., & Lawyer, S. R. (2024) · Perspectives on Behavior Science · doi:10.1007/s40614-024-00403-7 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

Statistically derived patterns of behavioral economic risk among heavy-drinking college students: A latent profile analysis.

Campbell, K. W., Voss, A. T., Acuff, S. F., Pebley, K., Berlin, K. S., Martens, M. P., Borsari, B. E., Dennhardt, A. A., & Murphy, J. G. (2020) · Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1037/pha0000420 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

Modeling motivation for alcohol in humans using traditional and machine learning approaches

Grodin, E. N., Montoya, A. K., Bujarski, S., & Ray, L. A. (2020) · Addiction Biology · doi:10.1111/adb.12949 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Delay Discounting, Dating Applications, and Risky Sexual Behavior: An Exploratory Study

Bable, R. A., & Brandt, J. A. A. (2022) · The Psychological Record · doi:10.1007/s40732-021-00506-6 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Experience with reduced‐nicotine cigarettes and whether this decreases smoking and substitution for full‐nicotine cigarettes

Naudé, G. P., Strickland, J. C., Berry, M. S., Dolan, S. B., Cox, D. J., & Johnson, M. W. (2024) · Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior · doi:10.1002/jeab.4223 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Collaborating to Move the Laboratory Findings into Public Health Domains: Maxims for Translational Research

Madden, G. J., McClure, S. M., & Bickel, W. K. (2019) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20992-6_7 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Measuring the Abuse Liability of Video Games

Bassett, D. T. (2018) · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Examining the Utility of Behavioral Economic Demand in Addiction Science

Strickland, J. C. (2019) · UKnowledge (University of Kentucky) · doi:10.13023/etd.2019.030 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Glucose response to sugar challenge moderates the effect of insulin resistance on reinforcing value of sugar-sweetened yogurt

Epstein, L. H., Rizwan, A., Rashid, S., Bickel, W. K., & Ghanim, H. (2023) · Appetite · doi:10.1016/j.appet.2023.107160 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Testing the reinforcing properties of sodium in hyper-palatable and ultra-processed foods using an experimental randomized parallel arm design

Bellitti, J. S., & Fazzino, T. L. (2026) · Appetite · doi:10.1016/j.appet.2026.108450

The clinical utility of delay discounting and demand as therapeutic targets for improving health behaviors: A systematic review protocol (Preprint)Preprint

Sheffer, C. E., Proctor, M., Foinquinos, V., Lemos, R. F., Bickel, W. K., & Fields, S. A. (2026) · doi:10.2196/preprints.92201

The impact of cumulative vulnerabilities on the valuation of cigarettes among veterans seeking to quit smoking

Nist, A. N., Tegge, A. N., Fontes, R. M., Lemos, R. F., Stein, J. S., Bickel, W. K., & Sheffer, C. E. (2026) · Addictive Behaviors · doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2026.108683

The clinical utility of delay discounting and demand as therapeutic targets for improving health behaviors: A scoping review protocol (Preprint)

Sheffer, C. E., Proctor, M., Foinquinos, V., Lemos, R. F., Bickel, W. K., & Fields, S. A. (2026) · JMIR Research Protocols · doi:10.2196/92201

Recommendations for the Use of Behavioral Economic Demand as an Abuse Liability Assessment for Drug Scheduling

Koffarnus, M. N. (2023) · Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1177/23727322221150197 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

The use of behavioral economic demand in human abuse potential assessment: A review and recommendations for future testing.

Strickland, J. C., Reed, D. D., Koffarnus, M. N., Acuff, S. F., Gelino, B. W., Graham, M. E., Kaplan, B. A., Johansen, A. N., Pierce-Messick, Z. J., Banks, M. L., et al. (2026) · Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1037/pha0000877

Validation of a behavioral economic purchase task for assessing drug abuse liability

MacKillop, J. M., Goldenson, N. I., Kirkpatrick, M. G., & Leventhal, A. M. (2018) · Addiction Biology · doi:10.1111/adb.12592 · Cited by 34 · see citing works

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS OF DRUG SELF‐ADMINISTRATION AND DRUG ABUSE POLICY

Hursh, S. R. (1991) · Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior · doi:10.1901/jeab.1991.56-377 · Cited by 262 · see citing works

The behavioral economics of substance use disorders: reinforcement pathologies and their repair

Bickel, W. K., Johnson, M. W., Koffarnus, M. N., MacKillop, J., & Murphy, J. G. (2014) · Annual Review of Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032813-153724 · Cited by 655 · see citing works