How Gamblers Try - And Fail - To Beat The System

Image credit: tedmurphy via flickr | ://bit.ly/1F7za0fRights information: ://bit.ly/NL51dk Habitual gamblers are more likely to believe they see patterns in random sequences of events, and to act on that belief, than the general population, according to new research.Wolfgang Gaissmaier, a psychologist at the University of Konstanz in Germany, and his colleagues studied how habitual gamblers, recruited from among the regular patrons of the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino in upstate New York, used a cogni...