The effects of anticipated regret on risk preferences of social and problem gamblers

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 227-234

  Karin, Tochkov ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology and Special Education ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipated regret; Problem gambling; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350339597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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