Gene M. Heyman

Boston College — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Behavioral and Psychological Studies(33), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior(21), Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes(15), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research(15), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics(12)

Publications79 total

Evidence that intergenerational income mobility is the strongest predictor of drug overdose deaths in U. S. Midwest counties
International Journal of Drug Policy·2024· 4 cited
Disapproving of destructive drug use should not be confused with stigmatizing drug addicts
Addiction Research & Theory·2023· 4 cited
Evidence that intergenerational income mobility is the strongest predictor of drug overdose deaths in U. S. Heartland counties
2023Open Access
Overconsumption as a function of how individuals make choices: A paper in honor of Howard Rachlin's contributions to psychology
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2022· 9 cited
One Cheer for the Brain-Disease Interpretation of Addiction
2022
Personality and Its Partisan Political Correlates Predict U.S. State Differences in Covid-19 Policies and Mask Wearing Percentages
Frontiers in Psychology·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Aspiration fuels willpower: Evidence from the addiction literature
Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2021· 1 cited
How individuals make choices explains addiction’s distinctive, non-eliminable features
Behavioural Brain Research·2020· 15 cited
Behavioral Psychology’s Matching Law Describes the Allocation of Covert Attention: A Choice Rule for the Mind
2020Open Access
Behavioral psychology’s matching law describes the allocation of covert attention: A choice rule for the mind.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2020· 4 cited
Evidence That Social-Economic Factors Play an Important Role in Drug Overdose Deaths
2019Open Access
Evidence that social-economic factors play an important role in drug overdose deaths
International Journal of Drug Policy·2019· 24 cited
Deriving Addiction
2018· 3 cited
Do Addicts Have Free Will? What Research Says About The Nature Of Addiction
Science Trends·2018
Dissociating Attention and Eye Movements in a Quantitative Analysis of Attention Allocation
Frontiers in Psychology·2017· 12 citedOpen Access
Do addicts have free will? An empirical approach to a vexing question
Addictive Behaviors Reports·2017· 15 citedOpen Access
Brief of <I>Amici Curiae</I> of 11 Addiction Experts in Support of Appellee
SSRN Electronic Journal·2017· 2 citedOpen Access
What addicts can teach us about addiction
Oxford University Press eBooks·2016· 5 cited
Introducing a Method for Calculating the Allocation of Attention in a Cognitive “Two-Armed Bandit” Procedure: Probability Matching Gives Way to Maximizing
Frontiers in Psychology·2016· 5 citedOpen Access
Opiate Use and Abuse, History of
Elsevier eBooks·2015· 2 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Michael M. Monaghan(4), Nancy M. Petry(4), R. J. Herrnstein(2), Terry W. Belke(2), R. Duncan Luce(1), James W. Hopper(1), Roger K. Pitman(1), Zhaohui Su(1), Natasha B. Lasko(1), Michael L. Macklin(1), Scott P. Orr(1), Scott E. Lukas(1), Igor Elman(1), Samantha P. Gibb(1), Marlene Oscar‐Berman(1), Robert T. Bonner(1), John Ryder(1), Chad M. Oldfather(1), Lawrence Tanz(1), Wing‐Ming Keung(1)