Confidence and risky decision-making in gambling disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

People with Gambling Disorder (GD) often make risky decisions and experience cognitive distortions about gambling. Moreover, people with GD have been shown to be overly confident in their decisions, especially when money can be won. Here we investigated if and how the act of making a risky choice with varying monetary stakes impacts confidence differently in patients with GD (n = 27) relative to healthy controls (HCs) (n = 30).

Methods

We used data from our previous mixed-gamble study, in which participants were given the choice of a certain option or a 50/50 gamble with potential gains or losses, after which they rated their confidence.

Results

While HCs were more confident when making certain than risky choices, GD patients were specifically more

SUBMITTER: Hoven M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10562821 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature