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From the APA testing site this is how they tested subjects when they gamble:
Many gamblers claim that gambling is intrinsically exciting, with money playing only a secondary role. To examine the effects of the expectancy of winning money, the authors randomly assigned 243 male college student gamblers to 1 of 6 experimental or 1 of 3 control conditions. Control participants either simply watched a videotaped horse race or they picked a horse, but without wagering; that horse later turned out to be either the winner of the race or the runner-up. Experimental participants wagered $1 on a horse for a chance of winning either $2.00, $7.00, or $15.00, with half winning and half losing their wagers. Wagering led to increased heart rates and subjective excitement as a function of the expected payoff and of winning as opposed to losing the wager. The study was replicated with 200 female college student gamblers with similar results. These findings support the notion that the excitement of gambling is tied to the expectancy of winning money.
I agree with this test (even though its horse racing). People gamble for the excitement over the money. The thrill of losing something, adrenaline rush of putting something on the line makes us want to do it again and again until well we lose all of our money eventually! BUT we must remember that gambling degenerates like me are people who doesn't have that "thrill" everyday just like some people. Some people risk their lives everyday for their job or personal preferences (i.e. rock climbing, budging jumping, etc.), but for the rest of 99% we just go to work, eat, sleep, (maybe sex) then repeat. Obviously no excitement there and we need something to break that chain of tedious life. So for some of us gambling is the way to break that life. Now I advocate every time to manage your gambling properly for everyone (gambling of what you have with fun not what you don't have i.e. loans and debt) but its for the excitement and fun that makes it unique to us. Hoepfully you have fun at the tables not there for the money...the money is "icing on the cake"!
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