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Excessive Gambling and Online Gambling Communities [PDF]
Journal of Gambling Studies, 2018 The Internet provides an accessible context for online gambling and gambling-related online communities, such as discussion forums for gamblers. These communities may be particularly attractive to young gamblers who are active Internet users. The aim of this study was to examine the use of gambling-related online communities and their relevance to ...
Anu Sirola +2 more
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Gambling and Comovements [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 AbstractThis study shows that correlated trading by gambling-motivated investors generates excess return comovement among stocks with lottery features. Lottery-like stocks comove strongly with one another, and this return comovement is strongest among lottery stocks located in regions where investors exhibit stronger gambling propensity.
Kumar, Alok +2 more
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Judgment and Decision Making, 2023 This article describes a study of transitivity of preference and of transparent dominance with 220 participants who judged each choice problem 4 times. It shows how a true-and-error model with 2 error terms per choice problem can be applied to replicated
Michael H. Birnbaum
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Journal of Economic Theory, 2013 This paper presents a strategic model of risk-taking behavior in contests. Formally, we analyze an n-player winner-take-all contest in which each player decides when to stop a privately observed Brownian Motion with drift. A player whose process reaches zero has to stop. The player with the highest stopping point wins. Contrary to the explicit cost for
Christian Seel, Philipp Strack
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Predictors of gambling and problem gambling in Canada
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2021 The purpose of this study is to provide an updated profile of gamblers and problem gamblers in Canada and to identify characteristics most strongly associated with problem gambling.An assessment of gambling participation and problem gambling was included in the 2018 Canadian Community Health Survey and administered to 23,952 individuals 18 years and ...
Robert J. Williams +9 more
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Is broad bracketing always better? How broad decision framing leads to more optimal preferences over repeated gambles [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2017 The effect of choice bracketing — the consideration of repeated decisions as a set versus in isolation — has important implications for products that are inherently time-sensitive and entail varying levels of risk, including retirement accounts ...
Elizabeth C. Webb, Suzanne B. Shu
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Disordered gambling, type of gambling and gambling involvement in the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007 [PDF]
The European Journal of Public Health, 2009 The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between types of gambling and disordered gambling, with and without controlling for gambling involvement (i.e. the number of types of games with which respondents were involved during the past 12 months).We completed a secondary data analysis of the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey (BGPS)
Debi A, LaPlante +3 more
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Dishonestly increasing the likelihood of winning [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 People not only seek to avoid losses or secure gains; they also attempt to create opportunities for obtaining positive outcomes. When distributing money between gambles with equal probabilities, people often invest in turning negative gambles into ...
Shaul Shalvi
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BiD: Textos Universitaris de Biblioteconomia i Documentació, 2010 The Library of Birmingham is a major new cultural development for the 21st century, involving radical architecture and a radical redesign of the architecture of libraries as public spaces. The role of the library as a social and experiential learning hub
Gambles, Brian
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The effects of losses and event splitting on the Allais paradox [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2007 The Allais Paradox, or common consequence effect, has been a standard challenge to normative theories of risky choice since its proposal over 60 years ago. However, neither its causes nor the conditions necessary to create the effect are well understood.
Bethany J. Weber
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