Study: The Poorer You Feel, The More Lottery Tickets You Buy [Lotteries]

In the afternoon I used Live search to find more info on ‘lottery play’ so I could post it into ‘Lottery Winner’. And this is one of the first results I found:

Very Short List notes that “Americas lotto kiosks are currently reporting heretofore unheard-of earnings,” despite the average rate of return53%being less than slot machines. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon recently completed a study in which they primed people to feel relatively poor, then offered them a chance to buy lottery tickets, and the results suggest that the poorer you feel, the more likely you’ll waste your money on a lottery. From the Carnegie Mellon article: The researchers i

source: Study: The Poorer You Feel, The More Lottery Tickets You Buy [Lotteries], The Consumerist: Shoppers Bite Back

I decided to blog this result under ‘Lottery Winner’. Let me know what you think of this…

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