Does thinking too specifically about a bet make you more likely to lose?
I'm not, as they say, a betting man; but if I were I'd put down the form book and spend my time studying a new paper by Yoon et al. (2013) published inPsychological Science.
The Korean researchers are fascinated by the question of whether thinking more carefully about a bet can actually make you less likely to win.
In their first test of the idea they looked at 1.9 billion bets placed on baseball and soccer through...
