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Critical Gambling Studies, 2021 Rationale: A key factor in our understanding of problem gambling is control: over gambling outcomes (illusion of control) and behaviours (gambling self-efficacy). Research in the gambling field rarely looks beyond these gambling-specific types of control
Sasha Stark
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Illusion of Control in a Brownian Game [PDF]
, 2007 Both single-player Parrondo games (SPPG) and multi-player Parrondo games (MPPG) display the Parrondo Effect (PE) wherein two or more individually fair (or Llosing) games yield a net winning outcome if alternated periodically or randomly. (There is a more
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Analysis of gait kinematics to determine the effect of manipulating the appearance of stairs to improve safety: a linked series of laboratory-based, repeated measures studies [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Falls on stairs are a common and dangerous problem for older people. This series of studies evaluated whether or not selected changes to the appearance of stairs could make them safer for older people to negotiate.
Buckley, JG +4 more
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Neural Correlates of the Poggendorff Illusion Driven by Illusory Contour: An fMRI Study
i-Perception, 2011 The Poggendorff illusion is a well-documented geometric illusion that involves the brain's perception of the interaction between oblique lines and object contours: an oblique line is apparently misaligned once interrupted by two parallel contours.
Qi Chen, Li Li
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Perceived control in contingency learning is linked to psychological wellbeing with low levels of perceived control thought to be a cause or consequence of depression and high levels of control considered to be the hallmark of mental healthiness. However,
Rachel M. Msetfi +4 more
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Examining the effect of knowledge-based leadership on organizational innovation with the mediating role of illusion of control and rationality [PDF]
مدیریت و چشم انداز آموزشThe aim of this study is to understand the effect of the variable of knowledge-based leadership on organizational innovation in Sepah Bank after the merger.
davar Dirmina +2 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016 The formation of coherent multisensory percepts requires integration of stimuli across the multiple senses. Patients with schizophrenia (ScZ) often experience a loss of coherent perception and hence, they might also show dysfunctional multisensory ...
Yadira eRoa Romero +5 more
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Impoverished Inhibitory Control Exacerbates Multisensory Impairments in Older Fallers
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2021 Impaired temporal perception of multisensory cues is a common phenomenon observed in older adults that can lead to unreliable percepts of the external world. For instance, the sound induced flash illusion (SIFI) can induce an illusory percept of a second
Alexandra N. Scurry +3 more
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Global PerspectivesWhy are societies (partly) adopting the scientific, Western intellectual perspective so little inclined to accept that their vision of the world is much more uncertain than they assume? This paper views the illusion of control as the result of a long-term coevolution in which, in Euro-American society, the basic categories of thinking have shifted from
Sander van der Leeuw, Gary Dirks
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Rationality and the illusion of choice
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The psychology of reasoning and decision making (RDM) shares the methodology of cognitive psychology in that researchers assume that participants are doing their best to solve the problems according to the instruction. Unlike other cognitive researchers,
Jonathan St B T Evans
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