Responsible gambling tools: pop-up messages and pauses on video lottery terminals - PubMed (original) (raw)

Responsible gambling tools: pop-up messages and pauses on video lottery terminals

Martin Cloutier et al. J Psychol. 2006 Sep.

Abstract

The authors examined the effect of messages and pauses, presented on video lottery terminal screens, on erroneous beliefs and persistence to play. At posttest, the strength of erroneous beliefs was lower for participants who received messages conveying information about randomness in gambling as compared to those who received pauses. Pauses also diminished the strength of erroneous beliefs, and there was no difference between the effects of pauses and messages on the number of games played. The authors discuss these results in terms of the use of messages and pauses on video lottery terminals as a strategy for promoting responsible gambling.

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