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  • Ajatusvinoumien rooli ongelmapelaamisessa 
    Kaukanen, Kari-Matti (2018)
    The connection between cognitive biases and pathological gambling has been under investigation for a while now. In this paper the link between problem gambling and cognitive biases, is examined in the context of their simultaneous coexistence and in their possible cause and effect relationship. This paper attempts to answer the questions: What or which cognitive biases are linked to problem gambling? In what way are they linked? Are there some identifiable mechanisms, that can be used to explain how the cognitive biases might lead into, and help to maintain the habit of problem gambling? The cognitive biases covered in this paper are: Gamblers fallacy, illusion of control, near-miss, chasing and entrapment, as well as double-switching and related dual processing model.
  • Ongelmattoman uhkapelaamisen kehittyminen kohti patologia : kirjallisuuskatsaus patologisten ja ei-patologisten uhkapelaajien eroista 
    Naamanka, Joonas (2020)
    Goals. Gambling is a universal problem, which is particularly pronounced in Finland. The problems are not limited to pathological gambling, but gambling also harms a substantial group of non-pathological gamblers, referred to as problem gamblers in research literature. The purpose of the review was to explore differences between pathological and non-pathological gamblers in three different domains: cognition, neurophysiology and personality. The goal was to create a broad picture of psychological factors differentiating pathological gamblers from others in order to improve the understanding of risk factors associated with the development of non-pathological gambling towards pathology. To achieve this, problem gamblers were included in the comparison regarding the studies which had that separate group. Methods. Research articles were searched from Google Scholar and PubMed database with the tags non-pathological gambling and pathological gambling. The inclusion criteria were comparison of pathological gamblers to non-pathological ones and that the research topic fell under one of the three domains of the review. Results and conclusions. Regarding cognition, non-pathological and pathological gamblers seem to differ on several cognitive distortions and problem gambler resemble pathological gamblers more than they do non-problem gamblers. Emotional processing might also be weaker in pathological gamblers. In the domain of neurophysiology, the functioning of many different brain areas in gambling situations may differentiate pathological gamblers from others. Additionally, dampened HPA-axel responses appear to be associated with gambling pathology. Personality-wise pathological gamblers are particularly more impulsive, but also more neurotic than others. The personality of problem gamblers resembles that of non-problem gambler than pathological gamblers. Going forward, more studies including a separate group of problem gamblers are needed because they could provide valuable information on the development gambling pathology. Societally, it is important to recognize gambling as broader problem than just pathological gambling.

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