The Gym Membership Purchase Task: Early Evidence Towards Establishment of a Novel Hypothetical Purchase Task.

Hypothetical purchase tasks are a widely used tool to determine the reinforcing value of commodities, especially commodities which are difficult to deliver experimentally. Amazon Mechanical Turk users (N = 375) completed two novel hypothetical purchase tasks (quantity of purchase and probability of...

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Publicado en:Psychological Record Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 371 - 382
Autores principales: Brown, Jeremiah, Washington, Wendy Donlin, Stein, Jeffrey S., Kaplan, Brent A.
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Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2022
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          Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, Roanoke, VA, USA
          Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
          Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC, USA
          Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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      ab: Hypothetical purchase tasks are a widely used tool to determine the reinforcing value of commodities, especially commodities which are difficult to deliver experimentally. Amazon Mechanical Turk users (N = 375) completed two novel hypothetical purchase tasks (quantity of purchase and probability of purchase) and other measures to estimate how much an individual values the opportunity to exercise in a gym. We examined correlations between demand indices generated by each task and measures related to physical activity. In addition, we compared rates of systematic and nonsystematic responding between the two tasks. Exploratory analyses of demand indices and measures of physical activity suggest initial evidence of construct validity for each task. When accounting for an order effect, the probability of purchase task generated significantly lower rates of nonsystematic responding compared to the quantity of purchase task (2.87% vs. 14.6%, respectively). We discuss how these results may inform improved construction of future hypothetical purchase tasks and implications for using likelihood and quantity purchase tasks.
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