The blinking lights and exciting jingles in casinos may encourage risky decision-making and potentially promote problem gambling behaviour, suggests new research from the University of British Columbia.JESUS. DO YOU REALLY THINK THE CASINOS RANDOMLY CHOSE A BACKGROUND THAT JUST ACCIDENTALLY HAPPENED TO ENCOURAGE GAMBLING? DO YOU REALLY THINK THE CASINOS NEED YOUR INPUT TO DETERMINE THAT THE ATMOSPHERE ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO DO WHAT THE CASINO WANTS THEM TO DO? JESUS.
The findings, published today in JNeurosci, the journal from the Society for Neuroscience, suggest that sensory features in casinos may directly influence a player's decisions and encourage riskier choices--raising new concerns that these features may promote problem gambling.
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