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Children do not exhibit ambiguity aversion despite intact familiarity bias

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
The phenomenon of ambiguity aversion, in which risky gambles with known probabilities are preferred over ambiguous gambles with unknown probabilities, has been thoroughly documented in adults but never measured in children.
Rosa eLi, Rosa eLi, Elizabeth M Brannon, Elizabeth M Brannon, Elizabeth M Brannon, Scott A Huettel, Scott A Huettel, Scott A Huettel, Scott A Huettel   +8 more
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Gambling and problem gambling in Switzerland.

Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2016
AIMS: To provide an overview of gambling and problem gambling in Switzerland, including historical aspects, past and current legislation and policies, treatment options and the research base. METHODS: A literature search was conducted on two databases (PubMed and PsycINFO), and official government and statistical reports selected from the official ...
Billieux, Joel, Achab, Sophia, Savary, Jean-Félix, Simon, Olivier, Richter, Frédéric, Zullino, Daniele Fabio, Khazaal, Yasser   +6 more
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Effects of outcomes and random arbitration on emotions in a competitive gambling task

Frontiers in Psychology, 2011
The affective events theory proposes that the evaluation of distributive and procedural justice map onto primary and secondary appraisal sequence, respectively.
Benoit eBediou, Benoit eBediou, Christelle eMohri, Jeremy eLack, David eSander, David eSander   +5 more
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Preference reversals in decision making under risk are accompanied by changes in attention to different attributes

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2012
Recent work has shown that visual fixations reflect and influence trial-to-trial variability in people’s preferences between goods. Here we extend this principle to attribute weights during decision making under risk.
Betty eKim, Darryl eSeligman, Joseph W Kable   +2 more
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Gambling and gambling devices

, 1969
This book, which was originally published in 1912, details the various gambling activities of the day. It also intended to "show up the gambling profession in its true form" and "to expose the implements used to capture the unwary".
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Lonely gamble – A longitudinal study of loneliness, gambling to escape and problem gambling

Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Abstract Background and Aims The evidence concerning the relationships between loneliness, gambling to escape, and problem gambling is mixed. This study aimed to investigate how loneliness relates to gambling to escape and gambling problems using a longitudinal approach.
Heli Hagfors, Markus Kaakinen, Iina Savolainen, Janne Vepsäläinen, Atte Oksanen   +4 more
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Bracketing effects on risk tolerance [PDF]

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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Surprisingly robust violations of stochastic dominance despite splitting training: A quasi-adversarial collaboration

Judgment and Decision Making
First-order stochastic dominance is a core principle in rational decision-making. If lottery A has a higher or equal chance of winning an amount $x $ or more compared to lottery B for all x, and a strictly higher chance for at least one $x $
Edika Quispe-Torreblanca, Neil Stewart, Michael H. Birnbaum   +2 more
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Quantum Gambling [PDF]

Physical Review Letters, 1999
4 pages, no figures, RevTex; extensively revised; submitted to Physical Review ...
Goldenberg, Lior, Vaidman, Lev, Wiesner, Stephen   +2 more
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Greater decision-making competence is associated with greater expected-value sensitivity, but not overall risk taking: An examination of concurrent validity

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Decision-making competence reflects individual differences in the susceptibility to decision-making errors, measured using tasks common from behavioral decision research (e.g., framing effects, under/overconfidence, following decision rules).
Andrew M Parker, Joshua A Weller, Joshua A Weller   +2 more
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