The Gambler's Fallacy Is Associated with Weak Affective Decision Making but Strong Cognitive Ability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Xue, Gui ^a,b   He, Qinghua ^b   Lei, Xuemei ^a   Chen, Chunhui ^a   Liu, Yuyun ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^c   Lu, Zhong Lin ^d   Dong, Qi ^a   Bechara, Antoine ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GAMBLER'S FALLACY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PHENOMENOLOGY; WORKING MEMORY;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; INTUITION; MALE; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867153810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047019     Document Type: Article

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