Why Do People Gamble and Keep Gambling despite Heavy Losses?

If a long series of gambles is subjectively structured into units each consisting of a string of consecutive losses followed by a win, positive valued strings will be short and negative valued strings will be long. Long negative strings will be temporally discounted more than short positive strings,...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Psychological science 1990-09, Vol.1 (5), p.294-297
1. Verfasser:	Rachlin, Howard
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Addiction Betting Compulsive gambling Discounting Expected values Gambling Heuristics Lotteries Motivation Prospect theory Psychological Factors Research Article Subjectivity Values Zero
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