The affective impact of financial skewness on neural activity and choice. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Few finance theories consider the influence of "skewness" (or large and asymmetric but unlikely outcomes) on financial choice. We investigated the impact of skewed gambles on subjects' neural activity, self-reported affective responses, and subsequent ...
Charlene C Wu +2 more
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Gambling among employees in Swedish workplaces: A cross-sectional study [PDF]
Environmental and Occupational Health Practice, 2023 Objectives: Responsible workplaces strive to minimize the harmful effects of alcohol and drug abuse. However, gambling is still a neglected area in workplace research.
Jonas Rafi +2 more
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Aumann and Serrano’s economic index of risk for sums of gambles
Cogent Economics and Finance, 2014 We study Aumann and Serrano’s (2008) risk index for sums of gambles that are not dependent. If the dependent parts are similarly ordered, then the risk index of the sum is always larger than the minimum of the risk indices of the two gambles.
Minqiang Li, Steve Cook
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Participants’ Utilitarian Choice Is Influenced by Gamble Presentation and Age [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesNo prior behavioral science research has delved into the impact of gamble presentation (horizontal or vertical) on individuals’ utilitarian behavior, despite evidence suggesting that such choices can be influenced by comparing attributes like probability
Joseph Teal +4 more
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A Project to Create a Novel Teaching Session on Gambling Harm, in Collaboration With Gamcare, for 4th Year Medical Students From Kings College London University (KCL) in Response to Changes in the Medical Licencing Assessment [PDF]
BJPsych OpenAims: Medical professionals are highly likely to come into contact with individuals who experience gambling harm during their careers. Around 5.5% of women and 11.9% of men globally experience some degree of gambling harm, and they are 15 times more ...
Rachel Rice, Hanna Mansi
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Relative Deprivation: How Subjective Experiences of Income Inequality Influence Risk Preferences [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesEconomic inequality has been linked to changes in individual risk-taking behavior, yet the underlying mechanisms remain underexplored. In this study, I examine whether feelings of relative deprivation from upward social comparisons influence risk ...
Tae-Young Pak
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Are medical treatments for individuals and groups like single-play and multiple-play gambles? [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2006 People are often more likely to accept risky monetary gambles with positive expected values when the gambles will be played more than once. We investigated whether this distinction between single-play and multiple-play gambles extends to medical ...
Michael L. DeKay +4 more
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To trade or not to trade: The moderating role of vividness when exchanging gambles [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2011 Individuals are generally reluctant to trade goods---a phenomenon identified as the endowment effect. This paper focuses on consumers' puzzling reluctance to exchange gambles, and in particular lottery tickets with identical distribution (i.e., same odds
Michal Maimaran
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Response mode, compatibility, and dual-processes in the evaluation of simple gambles: An eye-tracking investigation [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 We employed simple gambles to investigate information processing in relation to the compatibility effect. Subjects should be more likely to engage in a deliberative thinking strategy when completing a pricing task rather than a rating task.
Enrico Rubaltelli +2 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 This research examines the effect of response (in)consistency on the first mover’s anticipation and evaluation of the performance feedback in gambles. In a two-player gambling task, the participant played as the first mover while the confederate served ...
Jiehui Zheng +5 more
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