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ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Problem Gambling 'Fuelled on the Fly'.

Joseph Teal, Petko Kusev, Renata Heilman, Rose Martin, Alessia Passanisi, Ugo Pace

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Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Gambling Disorder among Porto's University Students.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Joseph TealBehavioural Research Centre, Huddersfield Business School, The University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7162-668X
Petko KusevBehavioural Research Centre, Huddersfield Business School, The University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0308-927X
Renata HeilmanDepartment of Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400015 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-1405-3210
Rose MartinDepartment of People and Organisations, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1845-8979
Alessia PassanisiFaculty of Human and Social Sciences, UKE-Kore University of Enna, Cittadella Universitaria, 94100 Enna, Italy.
Ugo PaceFaculty of Human and Social Sciences, UKE-Kore University of Enna, Cittadella Universitaria, 94100 Enna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0168-8153

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Problem gambling is a gambling disorder often described as continued gambling in the face of increasing losses. In this article, we explored problem gambling behaviour and its psychological determinants. We considered the assumption of stability in risky preferences, anticipated by both normative and descriptive theories of decision making, as well as recent evidence that risk preferences are in fact 'constructed on the fly' during risk elicitation. Accordingly, we argue that problem gambling is a multifaceted disorder, which is 'fueled on the fly' by a wide range of contextual and non-contextual influences, including individual differences in personality traits, hormonal and emotional activations. We have proposed that the experience of gambling behaviour in itself is a dynamic experience of events in time series, where gamblers anchor on the most recent event-typically a small loss or rare win. This is a highly adaptive, but erroneous, decision-making mechanism, where anchoring on the most recent event alters the psychological representations of substantial and accumulated loss in the past to a representation of negligible loss. In other words, people feel better while they gamble. We conclude that problem gambling researchers and policy makers will need to employ multifaceted and holistic approaches to understand problem gambling.

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GamblingEmotionsHumansanchoring on recent eventsconstruction of preferencesdynamic experience of events in time seriesproblem gamblingrisky decision-making

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PMID34444355
PMCPMC8392478

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