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Loss aversion in smokers and never-smokers

The materials were used to screen participants and collect data on Amazon Mechanical Turk. "Health questionnaire" screens for smokers "Smoking" has FTND and screens for dual product users. "Nonsmoking" screens nicotine product users. Gamble acceptance (GA) and Delay Discounting (DD) tasks. There are some restrictions on the use of these materials.

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Delay Discount Task

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Delay discounting task. Sequential choices modeled on Kirby's 27-question task. Data is coded for analysis with Gray et al. (2016 scripts.

Gray, J. C., Amlung, M. T., Palmer, A. A., & MacKillop, J. (2016). Syntax for calculation of discounting indices from the monetary choice questionnaire and probability discounting questionnaire. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 106(2), 156-163.

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Health Questionnaire

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Basic health and demographic questions.

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Gamble acceptance task

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Gamble acceptance task adapted from Tom et al. (2007). Three iterations of 49 trials. In run 1 and 3, gain range is larger than loss range. Loss range is greater than gain range in run 2,

Tom, S. M., Fox, C. R., Trepel, C., & Poldrack, R. A. (2007). The neural basis of loss aversion in decision-making under risk. Science, 315(5811), 515-518.

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Smoking

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Questions about nicotine product use and Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence.

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Smoking

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This experiment screens in smokers and non(never)smokers. Excludes multiple nicotine product users and individuals below 18 and above 55 years of age. Please only use for educational purposes. Any research use must be cleared with author. Commercial use is restricted.

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nonsmoking

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Questions about general health and other tobacco product use.

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Conducted at University of Vermont
Published on 15 December 2020
Corresponding author Dr Eric A Thrailkill Psychological Science
University of Vermont