Awareness of independence of events and erroneous perceptions while gambling

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 399-404

  Benhsain, Karim ^a   Taillefer, Alain ^a   Ladouceur, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gambling; Prevention; Responsible gambling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PATIENT SELECTION; RESPONSIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0347722231     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2003.08.011     Document Type: Article

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