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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Slot machines."”.
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Losses Disguised as Wins in Slot Machines: A Case of Contingency Confusion
… than probabilistically will be returned. Modern slot machines represent the most popular topography of site gambling, and are thought to encourage irrational gambling behaviors through the presentation of outcome stimuli that occasion the gambler to inaccurately detect the programmed …
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Benefit segmentation of slot players
The importance of slot machines to casinos is ever increasing. It is important for marketers to understand this growing market. The benefit segmentation of the slot players could help marketers use the resources to target the slot market efficiently and effectively; This study explored the benefits …
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Choice Overload and Maximization: Implications for Disordered Gambling
… differ in terms of frequency of switching slot machines, a possible behavioral marker of maximization. The results demonstrated that maximizers switched among available slot machines significantly more frequently than satisficers. Experiment II investigated further links between gambling …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF VARIABLES CONTRIBUTING TO DISORDERED GAMBLING AND SLOT MACHINE PLAY
… jobs, broken families, and at times, suicide. Slot machines are the most popular and most addictive form of gambling, generating nearly 70% of annual profits for the commercial casino industry in North America. Behavioral researchers have identified variables that establish and maintain problem …
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An economic analysis of the effects of VGTs in Illinois.
… Terminals (VGTs), commonly referred to as slot machines, in any liquor-pouring establishments in the state. I use a unique dataset that measures a university's access to gambling using distance to the nearest VGT combined with publicly available data on university class demographics. This …
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An empirical analysis of the reasons why guests select and return to Las Vegas hotel/casino properties
… and a tendency to play table games rather than slot machines. Finally, the importance of the host relationship was determined as low.
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Evoking Luck
… theories to examine luck rituals at casino slots. Gamblers were observed through covert participant observations over a seven-month observation period in The casino, and yielded 388 observations. Analysis of the gamblers demonstrated the fact that luck rituals do exist and are used at the …
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Players' Preference For Losses Disguised As Wins In Keno: A Concurrent Choice Procedure
… (LDW). These LDWs have been shown to increase slot machine playing in numerous studies. However, their effect has not been studied in connection to Club Keno, which is also a highly prevalent game. In 2017 the Michigan lottery took in over $600 million in revenue from Club Keno (FGSAD, 2017). …
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An Analysis of the Gaming Industry in Illinois
… the revenues from VGTs and the number of VGT machines would have a negative impact on the existing casinos through different measures including: casino revenue, slot revenue, table revenue, slot machines, tables, and admissions. Using OLS and VAR models, it was found that casino slot revenues …
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Have Video Gaming Revenues led to an Increase in Municipal Services in Illinois?
… (VGT) within their business, similar to the slot machines previously only seen at state casinos. These terminals arrived under much scrutiny, as scholars and citizens alike were concerned with the social negatives attached to gambling facilities. Previous research points out many of the …
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The impact of the EU internet gaming policies on Malta
… about board games, bets, card games, lotteries, slot machines or what not, there has always been some form of gambling. In more recent history, we see that in the USA, for example, the path of gambling has taken the form of waves where times would be varied between legal bans and approvals of …
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The Las Vegas phenomenon
… Fantasy, Theming, and Rebellion. People who play slot machines are studied and to them is applied the theory developed by Luhrmann in the book Persuasions of the Witches Craft that people in modern Britain who engage in witchcraft do so in order to achieving a childlike enchantment of adulthood; …
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Functional Investigation Of and Treatment Strategies for the Near Miss Effect in Gamblers
… sought to address a variable involved in slot machine gambling that has been termed the near-miss effect. In the present paper, the conceptual underpinnings of this `effect' were examined from a behavioral as well as a non-behavioral psychological perspective. The experiments and rationale …