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Problematic Internet Users Show Impaired Inhibitory Control and Risk Taking with Losses: Evidence from Stop Signal and Mixed Gambles Tasks [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 According to the balance model of self-regulation, dysfunction of the inhibitory control and reward processing might be a behavioral marker for addiction and problematic behaviors.
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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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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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The effects of surrounding positive and negative experiences on risk taking [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2016 Two experiments explored how the context of recently experiencing an abundance of positive or negative outcomes within a series of choices influences risk preferences.
Sandra Schneider +2 more
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‘Tis better to choose and lose than to never choose at all [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2017 When decisions involve opting in or out of competition many decision makers will opt-in even when doing so leads to losses on average. In the current paper, we examine the generality of this effect in risky choices not involving competition.
Nathaniel J. S. Ashby +2 more
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Under pressure: response urgency modulates striatal and insula activity during decision-making under risk. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 When deciding whether to bet in situations that involve potential monetary loss or gain (mixed gambles), a subjective sense of pressure can influence the evaluation of the expected utility associated with each choice option.
Catherine L Jones +4 more
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Tempus Fugit: Time Pressure in Risky Decisions [PDF]
, 2011 We study the effects of time pressure on risky decisions for pure gain prospects, pure loss prospects, and mixed prospects involving both gains and losses.
Kocher, Martin G. +2 more
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Prevalence, predictors and consequences of gambling on Children in Ghana
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Gambling is illegal for children in Ghana. However, young people, including children, are increasingly engaged in gambling across the country. Gambling is harmful and poses developmental implications for the youth, including children.
Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi +5 more
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, 2020 Although expected utility theory has proven a fruitful and elegant theory in the finite realm, attempts to generalize it to infinite values have resulted in many paradoxes.
Chen, Eddy Keming, Rubio, Daniel
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BMC Psychology, 2022 Background The effects of problem gambling are wide-ranging, affecting many aspects of health and negatively impacting the person who gambles, their family and friends, and their community.
Kathy S. Bond +9 more
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