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This week the US prosecutors agreed to let two of the three Internet gambling companies mentioned in a $3 billion fraud suit to re-launch their websites, partly to allow customers to cash out their money. The domains of these companies were seized by federal authorities and websites were shut down. 11 people were charged with tricking regulators and banks into processing illegal gambling proceeds.

A new research conducted by Benedetto De Martinoa of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and University College of London and colleagues and reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed the reasons of why people fear to lose money and thus abstain from participating in a winning gamble.

"Laboratory and field evidence suggests that people often avoid risks with losses even when they might earn a substantially larger gain, a behavioral preference termed 'loss aversion'," they wrote.

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