Problem gamblers see patterns where none exist and act more impulsively

A new study says pathological gamblers are more prone to cognitive distortions than non-gamblers.

A new report published in the Journal of Gambling Studies examined the phenomenon of probability matching, i.e. the tendency to match response proportions to outcome probabilities when predicting repeated binary outcomes. This is more commonly referred to as the gambler’s fallacy, in which some gamblers believe that because a roulette wheel has landed on red the last nine …read more

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Problem gamblers see patterns where none exist and act more impulsively