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Erschienen in: Journal of Gambling Studies 2/2018

02.08.2017 | Original Paper

Reduced Risk-Taking After Prior Losses in Pathological Gamblers Under Treatment and Healthy Control Group but not in Problem Gamblers

verfasst von: Nicolao Bonini, Alessandro Grecucci, Manuel Nicolè, Lucia Savadori

Erschienen in: Journal of Gambling Studies | Ausgabe 2/2018

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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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Metadaten
Titel
Reduced Risk-Taking After Prior Losses in Pathological Gamblers Under Treatment and Healthy Control Group but not in Problem Gamblers
verfasst von
Nicolao Bonini
Alessandro Grecucci
Manuel Nicolè
Lucia Savadori
Publikationsdatum
02.08.2017
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Journal of Gambling Studies / Ausgabe 2/2018
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-3602
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-017-9709-z

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