Erroneous gambling-related beliefs emerge from broader beliefs during problem-solving : a critical review and classification scheme
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000466291000001" target="_blank" >https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000466291000001</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2019.1590233" target="_blank" >10.1080/13546783.2019.1590233</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Erroneous gambling-related beliefs emerge from broader beliefs during problem-solving : a critical review and classification scheme
Original language description
Erroneous gambling-related beliefs (EGRBs) can be defined as beliefs that imply a failure to recognise how commercial gambling activities are designed to generate a guaranteed loss to players. In theorising about how EGRBs develop, previous reviews have proposed that EGRBs are extensions of decision-making heuristics and associated biases. We propose an alternative generative mechanism: one in which gambling games make substantial wins seem possible through problem-solving and eventual correct strategic action. EGRBs are then beliefs in the possibility of correct strategic action (illusions of control) that develop as players trial candidate strategies-strategies selected based on various broader beliefs. We further propose that EGRBs can be classified based on what is theorised in cognitive science about categories of general human beliefs about the world. For example, it has been theorised that human beliefs about supernatural forces and randomness have certain similarities across cultures, and so we propose that there exists a category of supernatural EGRBs, as well as a category of EGRBs based on broader beliefs about the nature of randomness. We review evidence for this classification scheme and discuss how it can be applied in researching and treating gambling disorder.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Thinking and Reasoning
ISSN
1354-6783
e-ISSN
1464-0708
Volume of the periodical
26
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
29
Pages from-to
159-187
UT code for WoS article
000466291000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85084353951