Een 2+2 member poste een link naar een onderzoek dat ze publiceerden over "tilting, emotion regulation and poker experience" in het blad “International Gambling Studies”.
Een link naar het artikel (Het abstract in ieder geval). Wanneer je op de Uni zit heb je misschien toegang tot het volledige artikel.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14459795.2013.78063
Heb het artikel zelf niet gelezen, maar misschien vinden enkelen van jullie het interessant om te bekijken, dus wilde het even delen hier.
Samenvatting van conclusies van het onderzoek:
1: The aetiology and ”phenomenology” of tilting (as result of significant monetary poker losses):
Significant losses were often followed by dissociative feelings (i.e., feelings of unrealism; ”this didn't just happen...”) and moral indignation (i.e., feelings of injustice; ”this is so unfair and not what I deserve!”). Thereafter, players often chased their losses in an attempt to ”regain” a morally just state of the world (i.e., ”I need to win back that which was/is rightfully MINE”).
As tilting eventually subsides, players experienced disappointment, anxiety and depressive feelings, and also often reflect (or ruminate) on their actions. Sleeping problems also occured, possibly reflecting the tendency of not being able to ”let go” of the negative consequences of tilt-induced actions, etc.
Of course, tilting can probably be instigated by dissimilar events. Here, however, we focused on encountering (personally) significant monetary losses in poker.
2: Differences between experienced and inexperienced players
Experienced players clearly exhibited a more ”mature” attitude towards losing, and tilting, in general. For them, ”bad luck” did not matter (or even ”exist”). Variance did not matter – in the long run you always ”get what you deserve”, which corresponds to winning money if you play well. Conceivably, for this reason, experienced players were in some cases prone to get angry if they had noticed having played badly. For inexperienced players, however, bad beats (not ”bad plays” per se), were a cause of negative emotions.
There was also indication that for experienced players, playing poker in itself has mitigated the occurrence of negative emotions elicited by losses. The data indicated that poker might actually be a ”learning ground” for emotional maturity in both dealing with tilting, and regulating emotions in general – some players even narrated that learning to play poker had caused them to regard many things in real life in a more ”que sera, sera” - type of manner.
This route probably goes through an adequate epistemic understanding of the relevant mathematical concepts in poker, such as variance and expected value, etc.
