ArticleJournal of gambling studies2018
Reduced Risk-Taking After Prior Losses in Pathological Gamblers Under Treatment and Healthy Control Group but not in Problem Gamblers.
Article in Journal of gambling studies, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Impulsivity in Gambling Disorder and problem gambling: a meta-analysis.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2019Pooled it
- Meta-analyses of clinical neuropsychological tests of executive dysfunction and impulsivity in alcohol use disorder.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2017Pooled it
- Diminishing loss sensitivity during risky decision-making among male individuals with gambling disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
- Chasing among older-aged gamblers: the role of mentalizing and psychological distress.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Improvement of Impulsivity and Decision Making by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in a Patient with Gambling Disorder.Journal of gambling studies · 2022Article
- Adaptation to recent outcomes attenuates the lasting effect of initial experience on risky decisions.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Expect the Worst! Expectations and Social Interactive Decision Making.Brain sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
A group of pathological gamblers and a group of problem gamblers (i.e., gamblers at risk of becoming pathological) were compared to healthy controls on their risk-taking propensity after prior losses. Each participant played both the Balloon Analogue Risk Taking task (BART) and a modified version of the same task, where individuals face five repeated predetermined early losses at the onset of the game. No significant difference in risk-taking was found between groups on the standard BART task, while significant differences emerged when comparing behaviors in the two tasks: both pathological gamblers and controls reduced their risk-taking tendency after prior losses in the modified BART compared to the standard BART, whereas problem gamblers showed no reduction in risk-taking after prior losses. We interpret these results as a sign of a reduced sensitivity to negative feedback in problem gamblers which might contribute to explain their loss-chasing tendency.
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