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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Illusion of Control"”.
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The illusion of control: influencing factors and underlying psychological processes.
The illusion of control refers to the overestimation of the probability of a win following a personal action in a gambling game. This thesis identifies gaps in the body of literature on factors influencing the illusion, uses a theoretically motivated methodology to address them, and tests the …
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Reading between the numbers: the colonial rhetorics of fantasy football and the illusion of control
… existing research in the critical intersection of media, sport, gaming and race to explore how fantasy football, an entertainment byproduct of the National Football League (NFL), rearticulates and recontexualizes the colonial ideology already prolific in the NFL and other products of American …
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An experimental investigation of asset market bubbles and of the effects of regret and the illusion of control in decision making
… extends existing research in two separate areas of experimental economics and contains three distinct experimental studies. The first two chapters are concerned with the bubbles that have long been observed in experimental asset markets and are inspired partially by real bubbles observed in the …
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Evoking Luck
… This study uses symbolic interaction, play, and illusion of control theories to examine luck rituals at casino slots. Gamblers were observed through covert participant observations over a seven-month observation period in The casino, and yielded 388 observations. Analysis of the gamblers …
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Overconfidence and Contracts : An Experiment
… task by using three different measures of overconfidence: miscalibration, illusion of control, and overplacement. We find that overplacement, which is the only measure related to the task, has a significant effect on the choice over contracts. Our design also allows us to observe …
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Cognitive Approaches To The Explanation Of Gambling Behaviour: An Evaluation
… in relation to the cognitive explanation of normal and problematic gambling behaviour. The "strong cognitive hypothesis" takes the view that if cognitive processes alone account for different levels of play, then the order of the events experienced during a task may be a good predictor of …
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Psychopathological symptoms and their relation to paranormal belief and illusory judgment
… Study 4 incorporated techniques to increase illusion of control induction and minimize context effects and fatigue. Psychosis proneness and mood symptoms were positively related to general paranormal belief consistently across three paranormal belief scales and illusory judgment on three …
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A Prima Facie assessment of the prevalence of certain emotional biases in the investment decisions of South African students
This study investigates the prevalence of emotional biases that influence South African students' decision-making in an investment context. This study advances the understanding of whether the future financial professionals of South Africa are susceptible to irrational decision-making due to the …
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An attempt to develop a laboratory model of superstitious learning of threat
… evidence, or beliefs that persist in the face of contradictory empirical evidence (Zebb & Moore, 2003). Both cultural and personal superstitions are pervasive in the general population (Vyse, 1997) and appear to influence not only the clinically ill, but healthy individuals as well as …
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The Limits of Self-Control: Self-Control, Illusory Control, and Risky Financial Decision Making
Can high self-control have drawbacks? Extensive research has shown the lifelong benefits of self-control for important outcomes such as education, health, income, and happiness. Far less work has been done on its potential negative impacts, where an overwhelmingly positive trait can end up having a …
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Doubling in a practice of animation
… a practice based Ph.D. in Fine Arts. The subject of the research deals with strategies of doubling as a means to explore the relation between what technology promises and the fantasy of the viewer/user. The visual material that constitutes my research attempts to raise, in various interrelated …
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Two Essays on Escalation of Commitment
… and Calantone, 2002) have listed four classes of factors that may impact a manager's propensity to escalate commitment towards a failing project, and have called for research into how exactly these factors impact escalation. In this dissertation, we explore two such factors. The first factor …
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Unconscious modulation of the conscious experience of voluntary control
How does the brain generate our experience of being in control over our actions and their effects? Here I argue that the perception of events as self-caused emerges from a comparison between anticipated and actual action-effects: if the representation of an event that follows an action is activated …