The so-called ‘free-play’ or ‘practice’ modes makes young people lured into internet gambling, a new research studied by Tahnee Frahn, Psychology student of the University of Adelaide which based from the behavior of 128 young people (most aged 18-24) who were playing on a simulated internet game site.
Those who took part in the study were offered a free-play mode on a simulated internet gaming site (a video poker machine) followed by a ‘real-play’ mode in which they could gamble for real money.
Two of the three groups – those who received a high return in free-play mode, and those who received this high return as well as pop-up encouragements – both bet significantly more credits per spin in the real-play mode than our control group. “This suggests greater risk-taking and a belief that the high returns in practice mode would continue during the real gambling phase,” Ms Frahn says...
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