The role of emotions in gambling. Typical and atypical development of the capacities of decision

Over the past 40 years, gambling has inspired many experimental paradigms in cognitive psychology laboratories, developmental psychology, but also developmental neuroscience. However, the first work in this field has shown that adults in some contexts, despite undeniable logical-mathematical abilities, produced almost systematically irrational responses. Thus, the objective of this article is to present some of the most original research-inspired games, which have provided a better understanding of the evolving capacities of decision-making and resistance to context’s snares, but also to discover the amazing role of emotions in typical and atypical cognitive development, with the example of autism.