Direct and indirect effects of pathological gambling on risk attitudes
Metadatos
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Society for Judgment and Decision Making
Materia
Risky decision making Pathological gambling Attraction and repulsion to chance
Fecha
2007Referencia bibliográfica
Brañas-Garza, P.; Georgantzís, N.; Guillen, P. Direct and indirect effects of pathological gambling on risk attitudes. Judgment and Decision Making, 2(2): 126-136 (2007). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32766]
Patrocinador
N. Georgantzís acknowledges financial support by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (SEJ2005-07544/ECON) and Bancaixa. Pablo Brañas-Garza acknowledges financial support from DGICYT (SEJ2004-07554/ECON).Resumen
We study individual decision making in a lottery-choice task performed by three different populations: gamblers under psychological treatment (äddicts"), gamblers' spouses ("victims"), and people who are neither gamblers or gamblers' spouses ("normals"). We find that addicts are willing to take less risk than normals, but the difference is smaller as a gambler's time under treatment increases. The large majority of victims report themselves unwilling to take any risk at all. However, addicts in the first year of treatment react more than other addicts to the different values of the risk-return parameter.