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Consider linking to your eportfolio page and/or any other professional online profile or resume such as LinkedIn. This is not required, but it can be useful to interlink your professional networks.
Very good - summarised with direct link(s) to evidence
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Use British/Australian spelling (e.g., analyze -> analyse; behavior -> behaviour)
Perhaps consider the hedonic treadmill (the idea that people have a baseline level of happiness that they return to, regardless of good and bad events)
Overview - well planned. Consider adding:
an image
an example or case study
Good balance of theory and research, with an applied focus
Excellent use of in-text interwiki links for the first mention of key terms to relevant Wikipedia articles and/or to other relevant book chapters
Consider including more examples/case studies
Conclusion (the most important section):
well developed
what might the take-home, practical messages be?
in a nutshell, what are the answer(s) to the question(s) in the sub-title?
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Hi! This is a really good topic and I thought it was little bit similar to mine! I just wanted to suggest perhaps you could write about the not only the addictive qualities of gambling but also the reward pathway that motivates it! Perhaps you could discuss the neurological pathways associated with the lottery pursuit. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10899-011-9278-5) Good luck! --U3204694 (discuss • contribs) 05:54, 1 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
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Hi! I just read through your chapter and I thought you might find the following journal articles interesting :) The first follows lottery winners in a longitudinal study and discusses a model of cognitive dissonance in relation to deservedness of winning. Usually people don't feel like they don't deserve the money, but over time they adapt and fully enjoy their winnings. I thought it might be useful under the "positive impacts" emotional section
Oswald, A. J., & Winkelmann, R. (2008). Delay and deservingness after winning the lottery (Working Paper No. 0815). Working Paper. https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/76207
The second article discusses the "wealth shock" associated with winning the lottery, and uses a model to explain the long/short term effects on happiness.
Sherman, A., Shavit, T., & Barokas, G. (2020). A Dynamic Model on Happiness and Exogenous Wealth Shock: The Case of Lottery Winners. Journal of Happiness Studies, 21(1), 117–137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00079-w
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Overall, this is a solid chapter that makes good use of psychological theory and research to help address a practical, real-world phenomenon or problem.
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Use double (not single) quotation marks "to introduce a word or phrase used as an ironic comment, as slang, or as an invented or coined expression; use quotation marks only for the first occurrence of the word or phrase, not for subsequent occurrences" (APA 7th ed., 2020, p. 159).
Figures and tables
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Each Table and Figure is referred to at least once within the main text.
Citations are not in full APA style (7th ed.). For example:
Use ampersand (&) inside parentheses and "and" outside parentheses.
References are not in full APA style. For example:
Excellent use of embedded in-text interwiki links to Wikipedia articles. # No use of embedded in-text links to related book chapters. Embedding in-text links to related book chapters helps to integrate this chapter into the broader book project.
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The audio is easy to follow and interesting to listen to.
The presentation makes effective use of narrated audio.
Audio communication is clear.
Consider slowing down a little and leaving longer pauses between sentences. This can help the viewer to cognitively digest the information that has just been presented before moving on to the next point.