Games of luck and games of chance: the effect of luck- versus chance-orientation on gambling decisions
✍ Scribed by Nehemia Friedland
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-3257
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✦ Synopsis
Chance and luck are conceived as two distinct causal agents that eect dierent results. The present study examined the proposition that persons who habitually attribute the outcome of random events to chance (chance-oriented persons) and those who prefer to attribute such outcomes to luck (luck-oriented persons) cope dierently with decision making under uncertainty. Chance-oriented persons decide according to given or estimated odds that de®ne the decision problem. Luck-oriented persons, on the other hand, rely on self-attributions of personal luck, and ignore the probabilities of decision outcomes. The hypothesized qualitative dierence between the approaches of chance-and luck-oriented persons to decision making under uncertainty was supported substantially by the ®ndings.