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Study: Gamblers Who Lose Bet More -- "The research, being published in the Journal of Marketing Research, suggests emotions can be manipulated to alter spending behavior and has implications for state-owed lotteries, public policy and the issue of consumer overspending, the authors said."

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The effect in the first paper is discussed a bit here, with a lot of detail on how some scams part marks from their money.