Fallacious beliefs: gambling specific and belief in the paranormal

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dc.contributor.authorLeonard, Carrie A.
dc.contributor.supervisorWilliams, Robert J.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-24T20:48:51Z
dc.date.available2018-05-24T20:48:51Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.degree.levelPh.Den_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis presents a series of studies investigating two types of fallacious belief: gambling fallacies (GF) and paranormal beliefs (PB). The first study identifies the errors that constitute GF and critically evaluates instruments designed to measure them. The second study re-evaluates the etiological role of GF in problem gambling using an improved instrument in a longitudinal dataset with results indicating that GF do contribute to problematic gambling, but to a lesser extent than previously supposed and in a bidirectional manner. The third study examines factors associated with susceptibility to GF and compares them to those associated with PB. A very similar set were predictive of both, with most being inherently malleable. The final study, a systematic review, evaluates the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce PB with results indicating that direct examination of the evidentiary basis of PB appears to be effective, although the generalizability of this effect remains uncertain.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAlberta Gambling Research Institute; Social Sciences and Humanities Council (SSHRC)en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5107
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subject0621en_US
dc.proquest.subject0633en_US
dc.proquest.subject0534en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : Universtiy of Lethbridge, Department of Psychologyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectCompulsive gamblingen_US
dc.subjectCompulsive gamblersen_US
dc.subjectGambling systemsen_US
dc.subjectGames of chance (Mathematics)en_US
dc.subjectBelief changeen_US
dc.subjectCritical thinkingen_US
dc.subjectFallacies (Logic)en_US
dc.subjectParapsychology -- Social aspectsen_US
dc.subjectParapsychology and scienceen_US
dc.subjectChance -- Psychological aspectsen_US
dc.subjectcritical thinkingen_US
dc.subjecterroneous beliefsen_US
dc.subjectgambling fallaciesen_US
dc.subjectindividual differencesen_US
dc.subjectparanormal beliefen_US
dc.subjectproblem gamblingen_US
dc.titleFallacious beliefs: gambling specific and belief in the paranormalen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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