The topic of my research paper is the psychology behind buyers of the lottery. More specifically, it will focus on the mindsets of winners and losers, as well as the common types of buyers. This will include social and economic classes, and the behaviors of participants in the lottery system.
There are several sources I have already acquired for my research project. This includes the encyclopedia description of what a lottery is. This may be helpful in the introduction of my paper who are unfamiliar, or who may not quite understand much about the lottery. There are also two articles, which describe the demographics of common lottery ticket buyers, and the altered mindsets of lottery winners. Both of these articles will be helpful in describing social classes and behaviors of participants. I also included a documentary called the “Curse of the Lottery,” which while not supported by a scientific sponsor, does have many interesting true life examples of lottery winners, which could be useful. Lastly, I found a report from the Psychology department of Nottingham Trent University, which researches the idea that lottery tickets are a “gateway to gambling.” It also identifies and describes the mindsets of different types of gamblers. This would be used in my paper as a description of the behaviors of winners and losers of the lottery system. For more sources, I will probably need more articles and scientific documentaries that focus on the behaviors of lottery ticket buyers.
Some problems or obstacles I will probably encounter will be creating a narrow enough topic that I can form a true thesis, as well as a struggle to find pertinent sources. Since it is an unusual topic, I will need to search very carefully for sources, as well as potentially find seemingly unrelated sources I can use to prove my thesis, whatever it may be.
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