The interview is especially applicable in regard to my final project topic, online poker. Online poker research is dominated by psychology and how people make rational or irrational plays. There are different skills that prevent someone from being a good player or making them a good player, and a lot of it relates to psychology and mental prediction, as poker is fundamentally a game of playing based on what you think that they think that you think that...." and exploiting your opponents based on that understanding. Even each of the subcategories could be applied to poker. For example, "relationship between past and prediction" defines poker as players make decisions based on their past information about how hands played out. Another example, "The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies," talks about how there are biases that people know about but choose to ignore. This can be applied to my specific subtopic of tilting, or being jilted based on a bad run of hands and losing money into making emotional decisions that are generally worse than rational decisions. Memory, cognition, and imagination all play into a poker player's mind automatically and mostly subconsciously. It is also interesting to compare online poker to in-person poker, which might enable more psychological mind tricks. Online poker is limited as one cannot read body language or speech, and so the psychological impact is through the player's visible decisions (how much they bet, fold, raise, etc.).
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One paper that is useful in understanding how to quantify jilting, or the psychological impact of being jilted, can be found here: https://www.predictionx.org/forum/main/comment/ed0916c9-7a10-464a-906b-be7f2dfd252c?postId=607ee89045ad0400156f12f2. People with medium or high tilt levels were not able to acknowlege thier proclivity for doing so, even though they face the objective fact of losing large sums of money in short periods of time (often and occurring repeatedly over extended time periods). Below is an image of someone covering their face while being tilted in poker, which someone playing online would not have to do.