Behavioural expressions of loss-chasing in gambling: A systematic scoping review

Banerjee, Nilosmita; Chen, Zhang; Clark, Luke; Noël, Xavier

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105377

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“…The increased response speed and sometimes increased risk-taking after losing may be problematic in some situations. For instance, in gambling, the tendency to continue or intensify betting after losing is called 'loss-chasing' (Banerjee et al, 2023;Zhang & Clark, 2020). Loss-chasing may lead to a vicious circle between losing and continued gambling, and has been widely considered as a key feature of gambling disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013;Blaszczynski & Nower, 2002;Nower et al, 2022).…”

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Differential effects of prior outcomes and pauses on the speed and quality of risky choices

Chen,

Eben,

Verbruggen

2024

Behavioral Decision Making

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Failures to obtain rewards influence what people choose to do next and how quickly they execute a chosen action, which are two components of motivated behavior. For instance, in risky decisions, losses can induce faster responses and sometimes increase risk‐taking, which may lead to detrimental consequences in some situations (such as gambling). Pauses might reduce these motivational influences of prior outcomes. To examine this question, participants alternated between a guess game, in which they won or lost money, and a choice game, in which they chose between a high probability of winning a small amount of money and a low probability of winning a large amount of money. The pause between a guess and a choice game was made either short (0 or 300 ms) or long (3000 ms). In four experiments, prior outcomes consistently influenced decision speed, such that people chose faster after a loss than after a win. However, prior outcomes did not consistently influence people's choices. In contrast, pauses increased decision quality, such that participants chose the option with a higher expected value more often, without substantially reducing decision speed. Pauses may improve decision quality by influencing predecisional attention allocation to relevant information, as its effect was absent when the overall task attention was high (Experiment 3). These findings have implications for both safer gambling and risky decision research. Future work can examine the underlying computational and cognitive processes and the generalizability of these findings to other contexts and populations.

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Section: Wins and Losses Influence Response Speed And Risky Choicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Differential effects of prior outcomes and pauses on the speed and quality of risky choices

Chen,

Eben,

Verbruggen

2024

Behavioral Decision Making

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Behavioural expressions of loss-chasing in gambling: A systematic scoping review

Cited by 1 publication

References 117 publications

Differential effects of prior outcomes and pauses on the speed and quality of risky choices

Differential effects of prior outcomes and pauses on the speed and quality of risky choices

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