Pathological gambling caused by excessive optimism

Monday, April 29, 2013 - 10:00 in Health & Medicine

Compulsive gamblers suffer from an optimism bias that modifies their subjective representation of probability and affects their decisions in situations involving high-risk monetary wagers.

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