Division on Addictions, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, 101 Station Landing, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
J Gambl Stud. 2010 Jun;26(2):301-29. doi: 10.1007/s10899-010-9185-1.
Cognitive measurement techniques, such as self-reports of behavior and reaction time measures, largely dominate the field of psychological research. It is uncommon for researchers to examine a phenomenon of interest by observing actual behavior within natural settings. To illustrate the existence of this methodological trend for gambling research, this article reviews systematically selected samples of the peer-reviewed literature related to lottery gambling in general and the literature related to pathological gambling and lottery more specifically. The results indicate that self-report surveys dominate the extant lottery literature, and experimental investigations of video lottery terminal gambling supplement those papers. This landscape encourages researchers to expand their methodological approaches to the study of lottery gambling. Currently, we know more about what research participants tell us they do with respect to lottery gambling than we do about their real-life lottery gambling behavior.
认知测量技术，如行为的自我报告和反应时间测量，在心理学研究领域占据主导地位。研究人员很少通过观察自然环境中的实际行为来研究感兴趣的现象。为了说明赌博研究中存在这种方法学趋势，本文系统地回顾了与彩票赌博一般相关的同行评议文献和更具体地与病理性赌博和彩票相关的文献中选择的样本。结果表明，自我报告调查在现有的彩票文献中占主导地位，对电子老虎机赌博的实验研究补充了这些论文。这种情况鼓励研究人员扩大他们的方法来研究彩票赌博。目前，我们对研究参与者告诉我们的关于彩票赌博的行为的了解比对他们现实生活中的彩票赌博行为的了解更多。
