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Warren K. Bickel

Warren K. Bickel

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
111
Citations
47513
World Ranking
380
National Ranking
241

Medicine

D-Index
110
Citations
49103
World Ranking
5519
National Ranking
2976

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Warren K. Bickel was affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and contributed extensively to research in psychology and medicine. They published across multiple fields, focusing on applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, public health, physiology, and general decision sciences.

Their research spanned several interconnected topics, including behavioral health and interventions, smoking behavior and cessation, decision-making and behavioral economics, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, mental health research, obesity, physical activity and diet, as well as opioid use disorder treatment.

Bickel's frequent publication venues included Drug and Alcohol Dependence with 22 publications, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology with 18, Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research with 8, Health Psychology with 6, and Nicotine & Tobacco Research with 4.

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • Mechanical Turk data collection in addiction research: utility, concerns and best practices, 2020, Addiction
  • Semaglutide and Tirzepatide reduce alcohol consumption in individuals with obesity, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Temporal discounting as a candidate behavioral marker of obesity, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Setting a goal could help you control: Comparing the effect of health goal versus general episodic future thinking on health behaviors among cigarette smokers and obese individuals, 2020, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
  • Delay Discounting, Glycemic Regulation and Health Behaviors in Adults with Prediabetes, 2020, Behavioral Medicine

Bickel collaborated frequently with several researchers during their career, including Allison N. Tegge, Roberta Freitas-Lemos, Liqa N. Athamneh, Jeffrey S. Stein, and William H. Craft.

They received recognition as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Heroin addicts have higher discount rates for delayed rewards than non-drug-using controls.

    Kris N. Kirby;Nancy M. Petry;Warren K. Bickel

  • Impulsivity and cigarette smoking: delay discounting in current, never, and ex-smokers.

    W. K. Bickel;Amy Laurie Odum;Gregory J. Madden

  • Heroin addicts have higher discount rates for delayed rewards than non-drug-using controls.

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  • Toward a behavioral economic understanding of drug dependence: delay discounting processes

    Warren K. Bickel;Lisa A. Marsch

  • Within-subject comparison of real and hypothetical money rewards in delay discounting.

    Matthew W. Johnson;Warren K. Bickel

  • Impulsive and self-control choices in opioid-dependent patients and non-drug-using control patients: Drug and monetary rewards.

    Gregory J. Madden;Nancy M. Petry;Gary J. Badger;Warren K. Bickel

  • Incentives Improve Outcome in Outpatient Behavioral Treatment of Cocaine Dependence

    Stephen T. Higgins;Alan J. Budney;Warren K. Bickel;Florian E. Foerg

  • A behavioral approach to achieving initial cocaine abstinence.

    Stephen T. Higgins;Dawn D. Delaney;Alan J. Budney;Warren K. Bickel

  • Remember the future: working memory training decreases delay discounting among stimulant addicts

    Warren K. Bickel;Richard Yi;Reid D. Landes;Paul F. Hill

  • Delay discounting in current and never-before cigarette smokers: similarities and differences across commodity, sign, and magnitude.

    Forest Baker;Matthew W. Johnson;Warren K. Bickel

  • Achieving cocaine abstinence with a behavioral approach.

    Stephen T. Higgins;Alan J. Budney;Warren K. Bickel;John R. Hughes

  • Impulsivity: The Behavioral and Neurological Science of Discounting

    Gregory J. Madden;Warren K. Bickel

  • Behavioral and neuroeconomics of drug addiction: competing neural systems and temporal discounting processes.

    Warren K. Bickel;Michelle L. Miller;Richard Yi;Benjamin P. Kowal

  • The Behavioral Economics of Substance Use Disorders: Reinforcement Pathologies and Their Repair

    Warren K. Bickel;Matthew W. Johnson;Mikhail N. Koffarnus;James MacKillop

  • Excessive discounting of delayed reinforcers as a trans-disease process contributing to addiction and other disease-related vulnerabilities: emerging evidence.

    Warren K. Bickel;David P. Jarmolowicz;E. Terry Mueller;Mikhail N. Koffarnus

  • Shortened time horizons and insensitivity to future consequences in heroin addicts

    Nancy M. Petry;Warren K. Bickel;Martha Arnett

  • Impulsive and self-control choices in opioid-dependent patients and non-drug-using control patients: Drug and monetary rewards.

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  • An algorithm for identifying nonsystematic delay-discounting data.

    Matthew W. Johnson;Warren K. Bickel

  • Nicotine withdrawal versus other drug withdrawal syndromes: similarities and dissimilarities

    John R. Hughes;Stephen T. Higgins;Warren K. Bickel

  • Reframing Health Behavior Change With Behavioral Economics

    Warren K. Bickel;Rudy Eugene Vuchinich

  • The behavioral- and neuro-economic process of temporal discounting: A candidate behavioral marker of addiction

    Warren K. Bickel;Mikhail N. Koffarnus;Lara Moody;A. George Wilson

  • Modeling drug consumption in the clinic using simulation procedures: demand for heroin and cigarettes in opioid-dependent outpatients.

    Eric A. Jacobs;Warren K. Bickel

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen T. Higgins
Stephen T. Higgins University of Vermont
John R. Hughes
John R. Hughes University of Vermont
Gary J. Badger
Gary J. Badger University of Vermont
Richard Yi
Richard Yi University of Kansas
Leonard H. Epstein
Leonard H. Epstein University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Lisa A. Marsch
Lisa A. Marsch Dartmouth College
Matthew W. Johnson
Matthew W. Johnson Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Gregory J. Madden
Gregory J. Madden Utah State University
David P. Jarmolowicz
David P. Jarmolowicz University of Kansas
James MacKillop
James MacKillop McMaster University

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