Michael Amlung

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Want to learn more about how to conduct systematic reviews in behavior analysis? I'll be presenting an ABAI webinar on this topic on March 10. Register here: www.abainternational.org/.../march-20...

Wonderful to have @mamlung.bsky.social with us today at @browncaas.bsky.social. He shared not only his outstanding work on behavioral economics and addiction but also highlighted the important contributions of students and trainees at all levels. Thank you, Michael!

Shoot higher… NEJM or Lancet. Be ambitious

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This study provides initial validation of two versions of nicotine pouch purchase tasks with implications for addiction and tobacco regulatory research. A tins version may be more sensitive to dependence severity, whereas the pouch version may be suitable for state-based influences on demand.

Figure displaying three behavioral economic demand curves for oral nicotine pouch tins, with separate lines for three nicotine dependence severity levels.

Demand for tins was significantly correlated with dependence (r values =.29-46, ps<.005), while correlations for pouches were less consistent.

Figure displays that the tins purchase task clearly differentiates consumers based on dependence severity

Behavioral economic demand curves depicting hypothetical consumption of nicotine pouches, available either as packaged tins (top) or individual pouches (bottom)

Task responding was prototypical with a similar percentage of nonsystematic data across versions. Participants consumed approximately 35 tins or 73 pouches when products were free (intensity), spent a total of $206 on tins or $43 on pouches (Omax), and had a breakpoint of $4/pouch or $56/tin.

We evaluated hypothetical purchase tasks for nicotine pouches in two crowdsourced samples (total sample size of 228 adult pouch consumers). Participants completed two task versions assessing consumption of individual pouches or tins (20 pouches/tin) across a range of prices.

Oral nicotine pouches are rapidly proliferating in the market, with particular appeal to younger consumers. In this study, we designed and validated 2 new behavioral economic purchase tasks to assess the reinforcing value (i.e., behavioral economic demand) for oral nicotine pouches.

Photograph of two hands holding a plastic container of white nicotine pouches

New preprint from my lab, in collab with Drs. Brett Gelino, @juststrickland.bsky.social, and Tory Spindle.

Initial Validation of Oral Nicotine Pouch Purchase Tasks in a Crowdsourced Sample of Adult Pouch Consumers

(Manuscript under review)

URL: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Joke's on you... the people you submitted it to will not look at it until one week prior to the original February 2026 deadline. They will discover a minor issue and send it back to you for urgent fix with 24 hours. Convince me otherwise.

When this is all over, you’re gonna take off that red hat……

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Damn those look great. She has a future as a baker if she wants it.

But was the criterion number of crows preregistered?

Agree 100%

I'm waiting for the bot to scream "We were on a break"

Josh is more of a Channing Tatum Beyoncé fan.

Congrats!!

The general manager of that bar is the son of our parent institute’s director

John Brown Underground?

Recovery Dialects: A Pilot Study of Stigmatizing and Nonstigmatizing Label Use by Individuals in Recovery From Substance Use Disorders Previous research has found language used to describe individuals with a substance use disorder (SUD; e.g., “addict,” “substance abuser”) contributes to and elicits negative bias among the general pub...

I assign this reading (and we have an in-class activity to go with it that I am happy to share). pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

What's going on with NIAAA? We heard about this at RSA, but this is glaringly obvious now.

I had the same thought!

Savage.

Lining grantees pocketbooks is my favorite part.