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EATING AND DRINKING: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Rachlin Howard,
Krasnoff John
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1983.39-385
Subject(s) - water consumption , food delivery , feeding behavior , food consumption , consumption (sociology) , food intake , water intake , environmental health , psychology , eating behavior , environmental science , water resource management , medicine , economics , business , agricultural economics , marketing , zoology , biology , obesity , social science , sociology
Food‐deprived rats were exposed to various schedules of food delivery; water‐deprived rats were exposed to various schedules of water delivery. Eating and drinking were measured over sessions and at points throughout sessions. The symmetries and asymmetries of food and water consumption were explored in terms of: (1) substitutability of food versus water, and of food and water on the one hand versus leisure on the other, (2) constraints imposed by various schedules of food and water, and (3) the tendency of rats to maximize utility within the imposed constraints.