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- Title
Drugs' rapid payoffs distort evaluation of their instrumental uses.
- Authors
Ainslie, George
- Abstract
Science has needed a dispassionate valuation of psychoactive drugs, but a motivational analysis should be conducted with respect to long-term reward rather than reproductive fitness. Because of hyperbolic overvaluation of short-term rewards, an individual's valuation depends on the time she forms it and the times she will revisit it, sometimes making her best long-term interest lie in total abstinence.
- Subjects
PSYCHIATRIC drugs; DRUGS of abuse; TEMPERANCE; DRUG utilization; MOTIVATION (Psychology); REPRODUCTIVE health; DRUG prescribing
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 6, p311
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X11000689