Smoking, hazardous drinking and individual differences in cost and gain discounting.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Past research has linked substance use to individual differences in discounting of future rewards. Since behaviours such as smoking and excessive drinking appear to involve a devaluation of future negative consequences, discounting of costs may also be relevant in the understanding of such behaviour. The primary aims were to investigate the association between cost discounting and the behaviours smoking and hazardous drinking.

Methods

In four studies, individuals recruited from the crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk responded to measures of discounting. Results were combined by meta-analysis of the standardised mean differences (d) between self-reported smokers and non-smokers, and between participants with AUDIT scores of 10+ (hazardous drin

SUBMITTER: Halkjelsvik T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8900177 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature