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Auer, M.M. and Griffiths, M.D. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8880-6524,
2015.
Testing normative and self-appraisal feedback in an online slot-machine pop-up in a real-world setting.
Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 339.
ISSN 1664-1078
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Abstract
Over the last few years, there have been an increasing number of gaming operators that have incorporated on-screen pop-up messages while gamblers play on slot machines and/or online as one of a range of tools to help encourage responsible gambling. Coupled with this, there has also been an increase in empirical research into whether such pop-up messages are effective, particularly in laboratory settings. However, very few studies have been conducted on the utility of pop-up messages in real-world gambling settings. The present study investigated the effects of normative and self-appraisal feedback in a slot machine pop-up message compared to a simple (non-enhanced) pop-up message. The study was conducted in a real-world gambling environment by comparing the behavioral tracking data of two representative random samples of 800,000 gambling sessions (i.e., 1.6 million sessions in total) across two conditions (i.e., simple pop-up message versus an enhanced pop-up message). The results indicated that the additional normative and self-appraisal content doubled the number of gamblers who stopped playing after they received the enhanced pop-up message (1.39%) compared to the simple pop-up message (0.67%). The data suggest that pop-up messages influence only a small number of gamblers to cease long playing sessions and that enhanced messages are slightly more effective in helping gamblers to stop playing in-session.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Frontiers in Psychology | ||||
| Creators: | Auer, M.M. and Griffiths, M.D. | ||||
| Publisher: | Frontiers Media S.A. | ||||
| Date: | 2015 | ||||
| Volume: | 6, 339 | ||||
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 | ||||
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| Rights: | Copyright © 2015 Auer and Griffiths. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | ||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | Jill Tomkinson | ||||
| Date Added: | 07 Dec 2015 14:21 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 13:58 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26613 |
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