Category: Compulsive Behaviors
Risks of Gambling Optimism |
José Joaquín Tejada, “The Confrontation” or “The Lottery List” Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain Optimism is a wonderfully hopeful belief attitude. But it sometimes has […]
Illusional Luck and Gambling |
slots Wikipedia Commons Craig Howell Continuing from my previous posting, “A More Careful Look at Gambling Behavior and Addiction,“ this adds some extracted examples of […]
Overcoming the Grip of Compulsive Achievement
Source: danilolivigni / Pixabay Compulsive achievement is a complex problem with many causes and consequences. It is important to understand its nature in order to […]
A More Careful Look at Gambling Behavior and Addiction
Playing Backgammon Source: public domain After my book on the history, mathematics, and psychology of the gambler’s illusion appeared, I was continually asked questions like […]
Bad Gambling Behavior Does Not Mean Addiction
Playing Roulette public domain Several years ago, at Monte Carlo, I watched a giddy woman decked in pearls and diamonds winning all evening at the […]