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Paradoxes Of Gambling Behaviou

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

1989
Psychology Press Ltd (Verlag)
9780863770807 (ISBN)

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Investigates the paradox of why a large proportion of the population engages in some form of gambling, despite the knowledge that they are most likely to lose, and even when they know that the gambling industry makes huge profits. Do gamblers simply accept their losses as fate or do they believe that they will be able to overcome the negative odds in some miraculous way? The paradox is complicated by the fact that those habitual gamblers who know best the systematic losses cannot be avoided, are the least likely to stop gambling. Detailed analysis of actual gambling behaviour has shown that gamblers are the victims of a variety of cognitive illusions, which lead them to believe that the general statistical rules determining the probability of loss do not apply to them as individuals.

Theoretical contexts; blackjack; the game that players refuse to win; objectives of blackjack players; roulette; the game players should not hope to win; lotteries; big prizes and small expectations; chance and skill; chance and luck; theoretical explanations.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.12.1989
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Hove
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780863770807 / 9780863770807
Zustand	Neuware