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May 31, 2009

Griffiths: Cognitive Bias and Skill in Gambling

"… Rational choice theory predicts that people will not gamble, thus it is theorised that regular gamblers gamble because they make the wrong decisions - that cognitive bias (irrational thinking) distorts their reasoning. The aim of this study was to increase understanding of the cognitive processes and behaviour of persistent fruit machine gamblers."Almost 18 months [...]

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May 8, 2009

Controlling irrational thinking (News On 6 Tulsa)

Filed under: Psychology News — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 11:00 pm
We all worry about things that don't make sense from time to time, but what can you do when these thoughts spiral out of control?

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