Browsing Psychology by Author "Harper, D. N."
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An animal model of slot machine gambling.
Peters, H. L.; Hunt, M.; Harper, D. N. (2008)Despite the prevalence of problem gamblers and the ethical issues involved in studying gambling behavior with humans, few animal models of gambling have been developed. When designing an animal model it is necessary to ... -
An animal model of slot machine gambling: The effect of structural characteristics on response latency and persistence.
Peters, H. L.; Hunt, M.; Harper, D. N. (2010)Despite the prevalence of problem gamblers and the ethical issues involved in studying gambling behavior with humans, few animal models of gambling have been developed. When designing an animal model it is necessary to ... -
Behaviour analysis around the world: New Zealand.
Harper, D. N.; Peters, H. L. (2007) -
Credit card logos and perceived value.
Hunt, M.; Peters, H. L.; Lie, C.; Harper, D. N. (2009)Feinberg (1986) found that in the presence of a credit card logo items were given higher monetary values than they were given in the absence of the logo. Feinberg speculated that associative learning was the mechanism ... -
Dopamine agonists and antagonists can produce an attenuation of response bias in a temporal discrimination task depending on discriminability of target duration.
Harper, D. N.; Bizo, L. A.; Peters, H. L. (2006) -
Probabilistic discounting with differing levels of background income.
Peters, H. L.; Hunt, M.; Harper, D. N. (2010) -
Slot machine structural characteristics, the near miss, and sensitivity to reinforcement.
Wallace, B.; Harper, D. N.; Hunt, M.; Peters, H. L. (2009) -
Slot machine structural characteristics, the near win, and sensitivity to reinforcement.
Hunt, M.; Peters, H. L.; Harper, D. N. (2010) -
The 'negative' credit card effect: Credit cards as spending-limiting stimuli in New Zealand
Lie, C.; Hunt, M.; Peters, H. L.; Veliu, B.; Harper, D. N. (2010)The "credit card effect" describes a finding where greater value is given to consumer items if credit card logos are present. One explanation for the effect is that credit cards elicit spending behavior through associative ... -
The influence of reinforcer quality on self-control.
Peters, H. L.; Hunt, M.; Harper, D. N. (2006)This study used a self-control paradigm designed as an analogue of choice situations in which individuals choose between two competing immediately available reinforcers each associated with a different delayed reinforcer. ...