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Preregistered experiments evaluate near-miss outcomes in online slot machine gambling, highlighting subjective and behavioral impacts of engineered game design.
Near-misses are a structural characteristic of gambling products that can be engineered within modern digital games. Over a series of preregistered experiments using an online slot machine simulation, we investigated the impact of near-miss outcomes on subjective ratings (motivation, valence) and two behavioral measures (speed of gambling, bet size).
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