Learning and Affect Following Near-Miss Outcomes in Simulated Gambling

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 442-450

  Clark, Luke ^a   Liu, Rui ^a   Mckavanagh, Rebecca ^a   Garrett, Alice ^a   Dunn, Barnaby D ^b   Aitken, Michael R F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive distortions; Gambling; Motivation; Psychophysiology; Regret; Slot machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887178313     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1774     Document Type: Article

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