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Reversing the endowment effect
Judgment and Decision Making, 2018 When given a desirable item, people have a tendency to value this owned item more than an equally-desirable, unowned item. Conversely, when the endowed item is undesirable, in some circumstances people have a tendency to swap it for an equally ...
Campbell Pryor +2 more
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2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, 2011 A gambler walks into a hypothetical fair casino with a very real dollar bill, but by the time he leaves he's exchanged the dollar for a random amount of money. What is lost in the process? It may be that the gambler walks out at the end of the day, after a roller-coaster ride of winning and losing, with his dollar still intact, or maybe even with two ...
Paul Cuff +3 more
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On the relative importance of the hot stove effect and the tendency to rely on small samples [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2009 Experiments have suggested that decisions from extit{experience} differ from decisions from extit{description}. In experience-based decisions, the decision makers often fail to maximise their payoffs.
Takemi Fujikawa
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Science, 2020 The country's pandemic policies came at a high price—and created painful rifts in its scientific community.
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Youth Gambling in Croatia - Frequency of Gambling and the Occurrence of Problem Gambling
Kriminologija & socijalna integracija : časopis za kriminologiju, penologiju i poremećaje u ponašanju, 2016 The main aim of this study was to explore the frequency of gambling and gambling-related problems among Croatian high school students. The specific objectives have been to explore gender differences, and differences in the frequency and severity of gambling problems regarding grade/age and type of school program.
Ricijaš, Neven +3 more
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Function-Coherent Gambles [PDF]
The desirable gambles framework provides a foundational approach to imprecise probability theory but relies heavily on linear utility assumptions. This paper introduces function-coherent gambles, a generalization that accommodates non-linear utility ...
Wheeler, Gregory
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Measurement-induced focusing and the magnitude of loss aversion: The difference between comparing gains to losses and losses to gains [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 Research has identified loss aversion as a strong and robust phenomenon, but has also revealed some moderators affecting the magnitude of its effect on decision making.
Fieke Harinck +3 more
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Gambling participation, gambling habits, gambling-related harm, and opinions on gambling advertising in Finland in 2016 [PDF]
Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2018 Background: This report is an overview of results from the 2016 Finnish Gambling Harms Survey covering the population and clinical perspectives. It summarises the main findings on gambling participation, gambling habits, gambling-related harm, and opinions on gambling advertising.
Salonen, Anne H. +3 more
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Pathological Choice: The Neuroscience of Gambling and Gambling Addiction [PDF]
The Journal of Neuroscience, 2013 Gambling is pertinent to neuroscience research for at least two reasons. First, gambling is a naturalistic and pervasive example of risky decision making, and thus gambling games can provide a paradigm for the investigation of human choice behavior and “irrationality.” Second, excessive gambling involvement (i.e., pathological gambling) is currently ...
Clark, L. +5 more
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Bracketing effects on risk tolerance: Generalizability and underlying mechanisms
Judgment and Decision Making, 2010 Research has shown that risk tolerance increases when multiple decisions and associated outcomes are presented together in a broader “bracket” rather than one at a time.
Ester Moher, Derek J. Koehler
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