‘This slot is hotter than that one’: symbolic generalization of slot machine preference in simulated gambling

Alice E. Hoon, Craig Bickford, Lotte Samuels and Simon Dymond

International Gambling Studies, 2019, vol. 19, issue 3, 432-450

Abstract: Slot-machine choice may be influenced by structural features like display labels, independent of the programmed payout probability. Gambling choice may then involve verbal descriptions or rules comparing machines based on structural characteristics such as “this one is better than another. This study developed an experimental analogue examining how display labels influences choices in simulated slot-machine gambling. Eighty-eight participants learned a relational series of arbitrary nonsense words that were either ‘more-than’ (E > D > C > B > A) or ‘less-than’ (A

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2019.1602159

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