QUANTIFYING NICOTINE'S VALUE-ENHANCEMENT EFFECT USING A BEHAVIORAL ECONOMIC APPROACH.
Nicotine increases the value of some reinforcing stimuli, and this effect may contribute to nicotine's widespread abuse. We aimed to quantify this effect using a behavioral economic analysis. Six Long- Evans rats were exposed to a modified observing response procedure. In this procedure, presses to...
| Published in: | Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Vol. 102; no. 3; pp. 353 - 363 |
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Nov2014
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