People base thousands of choices across a lifetime on the views they hold of their skill and
moral character, yet a growing body of research in psychology shows that such self-views …

Why do so many people spend so much of their hard‐earned money playing the lottery?
Why do so many people keep at it week after losing week? We explore the possible roles of …

Government-sponsored lotteries have been criticized for disproportionately generating
revenues from lower-income consumers. Prior academic research on this aspect of …

An understanding of random events and probabilistic outcomes is integral to buyer decision
making for many products, such as insurance policies, service contracts, casino games …

This research explores the interaction of motivation and ability to explain individuals' level of
participation in state‐sponsored lotteries. The motivation–ability framework is considered …

Although the consumption of government‐sponsored lotteries has grown considerably over
the past 30 years, few researchers have considered the psychological motivations …

Legal State Lotteries have significant effects on those state's revenues, their residents'
behaviours and their ultimate welfare. Reported Lottery product purchase appears to reflect …

Although disclosure of odds information is ubiquitous in the marketplace, no public policy
initiatives have been implemented regarding the manner in which odds information should …

With little exception, research has shown that state‐sponsored lotteries are regressive in the
aggregate, in that lottery sales do not increase proportionately with area income. We test …

Since the first modern state-sponsored lottery was instituted in New Hampshire in 1964,
lotteries have proliferated to 42 states and the District of Colombia. With little exception …