I was careful to specify that your hypothetical friend enjoins you to buy lottery tickets on the grounds that it is good for you financially.
Good point; I’m retracting my comment elsethread.
Whether it actually has that effect is a question for the psychologists; I don’t know whether it’s one that’s been answered.
I’m guessing the hard part is figuring out which way the causation goes—maybe not having mentally salient paths to success involving lots of hard work makes people more likely to buy lottery tickets, rather than or as well as vice versa.
Good point; I’m retracting my comment elsethread.
I’m guessing the hard part is figuring out which way the causation goes—maybe not having mentally salient paths to success involving lots of hard work makes people more likely to buy lottery tickets, rather than or as well as vice versa.