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Foreign Language does not Affect Gambling-Related Judgments.

Rafał Muda¹, Alexander C Walker², Damian Pieńkosz¹

¹Faculty of Economics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.

Journal of Gambling Studies

|February 16, 2020

Summary

Using a foreign language did not reduce biases in gambling decisions. People remained equally influenced by unclaimed prize information, regardless of language, leading to suboptimal scratch card choices.

Keywords:

Foreign language effect Gambling Scratch cards Unclaimed prize information

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Decision Science
Behavioral Economics

Background:

Gambling decisions are often biased by non-diagnostic information, such as unclaimed prizes.
Research suggests foreign language use may reduce decision-making biases.
The impact of foreign language on gambling-related biases remains unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if using a foreign language mitigates biases from unclaimed prize information in scratch card gambling.
To determine if foreign language use leads to more optimal scratch card preferences.

Main Methods:

Three experiments involving 409 participants.
Participants completed a scratch card gambling task.
Task was conducted in either native (Polish) or foreign (English) language.

Main Results:

Participants showed equal bias from unclaimed prize information in both native and foreign languages.
Foreign language use did not improve the optimality of scratch card preferences.
No significant difference in bias was observed based on language condition.

Conclusions:

Using a foreign language does not reduce biases in utilizing gambling-related information.
Foreign language use does not lead to more optimal scratch card preferences.
The hypothesis that foreign language use mitigates cognitive biases in this context was not supported.