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Decision-Making Styles, Negative Affectivity, and Cognitive Distortions in Adolescent Gambling

Marina Cosenza, Maria Ciccarelli, Giovanna Nigro

Journal of Gambling Studies > 2019 > 35 > 2 > 517-531

Evidences from the extant literature suggest that problem gamblers show higher cognitive distortions and reported experiencing higher levels of negative affective states than recreational gamblers. Furthermore, several studies reported that the more the gambling severity, the poorer the performance in behavioral tasks assessing affective decision-making. Although gambling research on decision-making...

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The illusion of handy wins: Problem gambling, chasing, and affective decision-making

Giovanna Nigro, Maria Ciccarelli, Marina Cosenza

Journal of Affective Disorders > 2018 > 225 > C > 256-259

Chasing losses is a behavioral marker and a diagnostic criterion for gambling disorder. It consists in continuing gambling to recoup previous losses. Although chasing has been recognized playing a central role in gambling disorder, research on this topic is relatively scarce, and it remains unclear whether chasing affects decision-making in behavioral tasks in which participants gain or loss some...

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Decision making, cognitive distortions and emotional distress: A comparison between pathological gamblers and healthy controls

Maria Ciccarelli, Mark D. Griffiths, Giovanna Nigro, Marina Cosenza

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry > 2017 > 54 > C > 204-210

The etiology of problem gambling is multifaceted and complex. Among others factors, poor decision making, cognitive distortions (i.e., irrational beliefs about gambling), and emotional factors (e.g., negative mood states) appear to be among the most important factors in the development and maintenance of problem gambling. Although empirical evidence has suggested that cognitive distortions facilitate...

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Attentional bias in non-problem gamblers, problem gamblers, and abstinent pathological gamblers: An experimental study

Maria Ciccarelli, Giovanna Nigro, Mark D. Griffiths, Marina Cosenza, more

Journal of Affective Disorders > 2016 > 206 > C > 9-16

Attentional biases have been recognized as factors responsible for the maintenance of gambling problems. To date, no study has ever assessed the attentional biases among problem gamblers that have discontinued gambling (e.g., abstinent gamblers in treatment).The sample consisted of 75 participants comprising three groups: non-problem gamblers, problem gamblers, and abstinent pathological gamblers...

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An Italian translation and validation of the Consideration of Future Consequences-14 Scale

Giovanna Nigro, Marina Cosenza, Maria Ciccarelli, Jeff Joireman

Personality and Individual Differences > 2016 > 101 > C > 333-340

Research on intertemporal decision-making has often used Strathman, Gleicher, Boninger, and Edwards's (1994) 12-item consideration of future consequences scale, or the CFC-14 scale (Joireman, Shaffer, Balliet, & Strathman, 2012). The present studies examined the measurement properties of an Italian CFC-14 scale, and the utility of distinguishing between its two subscales (consideration of future...

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Attentional biases in problem and non-problem gamblers

Maria Ciccarelli, Giovanna Nigro, Mark D. Griffiths, Marina Cosenza, more

Journal of Affective Disorders > 2016 > 198 > C > 135-141

From a cognitive perspective, attentional biases are deemed as factors responsible in the onset and development of gambling disorder. However, knowledge relating to attentional processes in gambling is scarce and studies to date have reported contrasting results. Moreover, no study has ever examined which component and what type of bias are involved in attentional bias in gambling.In the present study,...

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Risk-Taking, Delay Discounting, and Time Perspective in Adolescent Gamblers: An Experimental Study

Marina Cosenza, Mark D. Griffiths, Giovanna Nigro, Maria Ciccarelli

Journal of Gambling Studies > 2017 > 33 > 2 > 383-395

Previous research has demonstrated that adult pathological gamblers (compared to controls) show risk-proneness, foreshortened time horizon, and preference for immediate rewards. No study has ever examined the interplay of these factors in adolescent gambling. A total of 104 adolescents took part in the research. Two equal-number groups of adolescent non-problem and problem gamblers, defined using...

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Decision-Making, Cognitive Distortions and Alcohol Use in Adolescent Problem and Non-problem Gamblers: An Experimental Study

Maria Ciccarelli, Mark D. Griffiths, Giovanna Nigro, Marina Cosenza

Journal of Gambling Studies > 2016 > 32 > 4 > 1203-1213

In the psychological literature, many studies have investigated the neuropsychological and behavioral changes that occur developmentally during adolescence. These studies have consistently observed a deficit in the decision-making ability of children and adolescents. This deficit has been ascribed to incomplete brain development. The same deficit has also been observed in adult problem and pathological...

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Living in the Now: Decision-Making and Delay Discounting in Adolescent Gamblers

Giovanna Nigro, Marina Cosenza

Journal of Gambling Studies > 2016 > 32 > 4 > 1191-1202

Several studies examining the relationship of affective decision-making and delay discounting in disordered gambling demonstrated that adult pathological gamblers differ from healthy controls on both reward-related decision tasks. To date no study analyzed the relative contribution of these variables in adolescent gambling. This study was designed to compare affective decision-making and delay discounting...

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Reward Preferences of Pathological Gamblers Under Conditions of Uncertainty: An Experimental Study

Maria Ciccarelli, Roberto Malinconico, Mark D. Griffiths, Giovanna Nigro, more

Journal of Gambling Studies > 2016 > 32 > 4 > 1175-1189

Among many personality traits, impulsivity represents one of the most important traits associated with pathological gambling. Empirical research has highlighted the multidimensional nature of impulsivity, which includes different heterogeneous traits and behavioral tendencies. The present study experimentally examined reward preferences of pathological gamblers under conditions of uncertainty using...

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Negotiation Models in Manufacturing E-Marketplaces

Giovanna Nigro, Manfredi Bruccoleri, Umberto Commare

Designing and Evaluating Value Added Services in Manufacturing E-Market Places > 97-117

This chapter describes the negotiation model adopted by the Customer and Supplier Negotiation Agents in the agent based architecture described in Chapter 2. The chapter is structured as it follows: in the first section the use of automated negotiation in modern market scenario is motivated; in the second section, starting form the contributions presented in the scientific literature, automated negotiation...

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Wagering the future: Cognitive distortions, impulsivity, delay discounting, and time perspective in adolescent gambling

Marina Cosenza, Giovanna Nigro

Journal of Adolescence > 2015 > 45 > Complete > 56-66

This study investigated the relationship of cognitive distortions, self-reported impulsivity, delay discounting, and time perspective to gambling severity in Italian adolescents. One thousand and thirty high school students were administered the South Oaks Gambling Screen Revised for Adolescents (SOGS-RA), the Gambling Related Cognitions Scale (GRCS), the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11), the...

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Episodic future thinking as a predictor of children’s prospective memory

Giovanna Nigro, Maria A. Brandimonte, PierCarla Cicogna, Marina Cosenza

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology > 2014 > 127 > Complete > 82-94

The primary goal of this study was to investigate the relationship among retrospective memory, episodic future thinking, and event-based prospective memory performance in preschool, first-grade, and second-grade children. A total of 160 children took part in the experiment. The study included participants from four age groups: 4-year-olds, 5-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and 7-year-olds. Participants were...

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Youth at Stake: Alexithymia, Cognitive Distortions, and Problem Gambling in Late Adolescents

Marina Cosenza, Ivana Baldassarre, Olimpia Matarazzo, Giovanna Nigro

Cognitive Computation > 2014 > 6 > 4 > 652-660

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of alexithymia and cognitive distortions in adolescent gambling. Five hundred and forty-six Italian high school students, between the ages of 17 and 19 years, were administered the South Oaks Gambling Screen Revised for Adolescents (SOGS-RA), the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), and the Gambling Related Cognitions Scale (GRCS). Results showed that...

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Helpful Contextual Information Before or After Negative Events: Effects on Appraisal and Emotional Reaction

Olimpia Matarazzo, Ivana Baldassarre, Giovanna Nigro, Marina Cosenza, more

Cognitive Computation > 2014 > 6 > 4 > 640-651

This study investigated the effect of helpful contextual information, presented before and after a negative event, on modifying appraisal and emotional reaction. Through the scenario technique, a basic situation of negative outcome (in health or hobby domain) entailing appraisal of high responsibility and low remediability (control condition) was manipulated by adding—separately or together—two types...

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The role of visual perceptual style and personality disorder traits in event-based prospective memory

Giovanna Nigro, Piera Carla Cicogna, Francesca D’Olimpio, Marina Cosenza

Personality and Individual Differences > 2012 > 53 > 7 > 912-916

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of global/local processing style, field-(in)dependence, and personality disorder traits in event-based prospective memory performance. One hundred and fifty participants took part in an experiment, where they were administered a computerized version of Navon’s global–local task. The PM task required participants to press a designated key whenever a...

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The effects of ongoing activity on time estimation in prospective remembering

Miranda Occhionero, Maria José Esposito, Pier Carla Cicogna, Giovanna Nigro

Applied Cognitive Psychology > 24 > 6 > 774 - 791

Two experiments examined whether time‐based prospective memory performance is influenced by the continuous or discontinuous nature of an ongoing activity. The first experiment demonstrated that prospective memory performance was not influenced by the engagement in continuous or discontinuous ongoing activity. The second experiment demonstrated that a discontinuous ongoing activity negatively affected...

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